UK defence chief doubts Russia wants war with NATO as he marks D-Day anniversary

Russia’s Vladimir Putin does not want a direct war with NATO and he does not want a nuclear war, the head of the UK armed forces has said. Admiral Sir Tony Radakin also signaled that Moscow and Beijing lack the military proficiency” to defeat the kind of barrage of drones and missiles that the United States and its allies destroyed in April when Iran attempted to attack Israel. In an interview to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings of the Second World War, the Chief of the Defence Staff sought to strike a reassuring tone that a third…