Risk ‘a new Iron Curtain will descend upon Europe’ as Russia’s isolation grows

A woman reacts as she stands in front of a house burning after being shelled in the city of Irpin, outside Kyiv, on March 4, 2022. (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)

There is a risk of a “new Cold War” and that “a new Iron Curtain will descend upon Europe”, the UK Defence Secretary has warned.

Ben Wallace said Russian President Vladimir Putin was “playing with fire” by attacking the Zaporizhzhia nuclear site in Ukraine – a move Western officials deemed unprecedented.