UK accuses Kremlin of ordering series of 'reckless' cyber-attacks

Foreign Office increases pressure on Russia after Skripal poisoning

The British government has directly accused Russian military intelligence of being behind a spate of "reckless and indiscriminate cyber-attacks" carried out on the orders of Vladimir Putin's Kremlin, including the hacking in 2016 of the US Democratic National Committee headquarters.

The claim is a precursor to the announcement of further UK intelligence revelations of Russian state involvement in the poisoning in Salisbury of Sergei Skripal, the Russian double agent.