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We are ready to fight: Army hits back at Defence Secretary

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Defence Secretary John Healey said the Armed Forces are not ready to fight.

But senior Army sources said they would “back the British soldier every day’ if Russia goes to war.

They said it was wrong to accept that the UK ’s rivals were “seeking to win without eliciting a warfighting response”.