LONDON (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is stalling efforts to end Russia’s war on Ukraine, and is testing the West with tactics that fall “just below the threshold of war,” the head of Britain’s MI6 spy agency said Monday. The speech is the latest in a series of warnings by Western defense and security authorities about the growing hybrid threat from states such as Russia, Iran and to an extent China, whose use of cyber tools, espionage and influence operations they say threatens global stability. Knighton said at the Royal United Services Institute think tank that the war in Ukraine shows that Putin “threatens the whole of NATO, including the U.K.” He argued that Britain needs both a stronger military and more resilient infrastructure to meet the evolving threat.
Author: Jill Lawless, Associated Press
Published at: 2025-12-15 22:07:38
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