Putin will ‘shut down power grids’ & ‘turnout lights for millions’ in cyber attacks – but we are watching YOU, MP warns

A RAGING Vladimir Putin could unopen down powerfulness grids and "turn lights disconnected for millions" successful a vicious cyber attack, an MP volition warn.

But curate Pat McFadden, acceptable to code a Nato league successful days, volition besides state that "the United Kingdom and others successful this country are watching Russia".

McFadden, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, volition pass Britain's allies adjacent week that we indispensable "not underestimate" the menace posed by Russia successful its "hidden war".

Putin's forces person antecedently targeted UK vigor infrastructure and "won't deliberation twice" astir attacking British businesses, helium volition archer the subject alliance.

"With a cyber attack, Russia tin crook the lights disconnected for millions of people. It tin unopen down the powerfulness grids," McFadden is owed to say, The Telegraph reports.

The cyber onslaught plans would beryllium an effort to dilute support for Ukraine from allied states.

It could provoke a "destabilising and debilitating" cyber warfare - with McFadden slamming the Kremlin arsenic "exceptionally assertive and reckless" successful this area.

"Be successful nary doubt: the United Kingdom and others successful this country are watching Russia," helium volition adhd astatine the Cyber Defence Conference successful Lancaster House.

"We cognize precisely what they are doing, and we are countering their attacks some publically and down the scenes.

"That's wherefore we enactment Ukraine successful its combat to determine its ain destiny.

"Putin is simply a antheral who wants destruction, not peace. He is trying to deter our enactment for Ukraine with his threats.

"He volition not beryllium successful."

The informing of Russia's impeding cyber onslaught comes aft Ukraine fired Western long-range missiles heavy into force territory past week.

After implicit 2 years of war, and repeated requests by Kyiv for support to occurrence the hefty weapons into Russia, the US and UK yet gave the green-light.

Embattled Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky oversaw an awesome double-tap onslaught lone days aft - launching US-made ATACMS rockets archetypal and British Storm Shadow missiles 2 days later.

Putin responded by firing a medium-range intercontinental ballistic rocket (IRBM) - raining down a slew of warheads supra the metropolis of Dnipro.

Deranged Vlad soon said successful a meeting with subject chiefs: "We volition proceed these tests, including successful combat conditions, depending connected the concern and quality of the information threats posted to Russia."

He added that helium has "a stockpile of specified systems acceptable for use".

He warned that US and UK targets - peculiarly subject ones - would beryllium precocious connected his hit-list aft Ukraine's attacks.

Putin has agelong been a instrumentality of sneaky cyber attacks erstwhile targeting his enemies successful the West - antecedently thought to person utilized Kremlin-tied cyber gangs to onslaught the NHS.