🎙 Excerpt from Russian MFA Spox Maria Zakharova's weekly briefing (Moscow, 11 November 2026) ❓ Question: UK Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has told the Financial Times that London would prefer to have additional channels of communication with Moscow in order to reduce the risk of “miscalculation”. How would you comment on this statement? Has the British side perhaps already approached the Russian Foreign Ministry with relevant requests? 💬 Maria Zakharova: This is a remarkable statement. Indeed, if London “would prefer to have additional channels of communication with Moscow”, there is only one way to comment on that right now, and it prompts a natural question: why were those channels cut in the first place? UK Defence Secretary Wes Streeting may be new to his post and may not be aware that these very “channels of communication” were severed at the initiative of the British side itself in 2024, when London, once again, came up with some obscure pretext and decided to expel the Russian military attaché. I would recommend that the UK Defence Secretary get in touch with his Russian counterparts at the Russian Ministry of Defence. If there is such a need, I assure you, they will pick up the phone and have a conversation.