The air in the parliamentary committee room was thick with the kind of gravity usually reserved for declarations of war or national emergencies. Yet, as MI5 chief Ken McCallum addressed lawmakers, there were no fighter jets soaring overhead, no rows of tanks, and no artillery fire on the horizon. Instead, the threat he described was silent, insidious, and far more pervasive than any physical invasion. He laid down a stark reality: disinformation is now warfare, and the United Kingdom is already on the front lines. This is not the traditional espionage of the Cold War, with dead drops and spy…

It was one of those rare moments that felt almost like a victory for Ukraine, a breath of fresh air after months of relentless digital warfare. Over the weekend, Ukrainian forces carried out at least three airstrikes on data centres belonging to Yandex, the Russian search-engine giant. Telegram channels lit up with grainy footage of flames and smoke rising from what appeared to be one of the buildings, while Yandex itself quietly acknowledged the strikes. Russian media soon reported that a number of websites had gone dark, and for a brief, hopeful moment, it seemed as though Ukraine had found…