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Apply with £100,000 annual income or £100,000 savings or investments with HSBC UK or Premier status abroad. Hello and welcome back to a new episode and a new year with me, Saul David and Patrick Bishop.

Well, it got off to a dark start with Vladimir Putin's traditional New Year address to the Russian people.

Putin's words gave little hope that Russian strategy is likely to change anytime soon.

Instead, he doubled down on the war rhetoric, telling Russians that the conflict in Ukraine

was an existential struggle forced on them by Western aggression and won which they had no choice

but to win. The speech came as Russia suffered yet more casualties on the battlefield in a series of successful Ukrainian strikes that left many dead.

Well, body counts are just one element in how this war is playing out.

And today we'll be hearing in detail about another fascinating facet of what's going on.

That's the huge struggle being fought out in cyberspace. And to tell us all about it is one of

Britain's greatest experts, David Alexander, who's an academic, but who's also worked at a very

senior level on the development of both national cyber policy and operational capability,

both for the British government and for the British Ministry of Defence.

But first, what do you think about that speech, all?

Well, it was a sort of combination of the usual same-old, same-old, but also quite chilling

when we consider it in the round. But let's talk a little bit about the detail. He talked in

it about difficult but necessary decisions, Obviously, he means going to war,

about the need to restore full Russian sovereignty, which is a very clear indication that Ukraine

comes within Russian sovereignty, and that's not just a bit of Ukraine, that's all Ukraine.

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