deception The call was prompted by a request to a government agency via a possibly bogus email on behalf of a Ukrainian embassy official. But Minister Wallace, as the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported, would be delighted talk for a few minutes about important topics with whoever had contacted him before noticing this on the other side there was no smihal but someone who looked very much like him and tried to imitate him.
Nine minutes talk The scammer would have done it to the British minister some questions about Kiev’s possible renunciation of NATO membershipthe possibility that Ukraine could intervene nuclear weapons and even potential deployments of British warships in the Black Sea.
“Dirty Tricks” from Moscow Wallace accuses the Kremlin of using “dirty tricks” to extort information and states that he gave vague and noncompromising answers, but fears the call could still be used by, and for, Russian propaganda an investigation was launched. Patel instead described the video call prank as one “Pathetic attempt to divide us in such difficult times”but in her case it is not known exactly how long the conversation lasted.
“National security has not been compromised” Deputy Defense Secretary James Heappey, in an interview with BBC Radio, reassures the English people by downplaying the importance of the incident. However, he pointed out that his supervisor, then Wallace, was “very upset” by what shouldn’t have happened. It remains to be seen whether what was said in the talks between the two ministers will have no consequences.
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