U.K. intelligence chief accuses Russia of ‘staggeringly reckless’ sabotage campaign
3 months, 4 weeks ago

U.K. intelligence chief accuses Russia of ‘staggeringly reckless’ sabotage campaign

LA Times  

“The cost of supporting Ukraine is well-known, but the cost of not doing so would be infinitely higher,” Richard Moore, head of MI6, Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, says at the British Embassy in Paris on Friday. The head of Britain’s foreign intelligence service says Russia is conducting a “staggeringly reckless” sabotage campaign against Ukraine’s Western allies, and that his spies are working to stop the consequences from spiraling out of control. And in a message aimed in part at U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, MI6 chief Richard Moore said that Russian victory in Ukraine would threaten American, as well as European, security. Moore said his agency and its French counterpart were working together against a dangerous escalation by “calibrating the risk and informing the decisions of our respective governments” in response to President Vladimir Putin’s “mix of bluster and aggression.” “We have recently uncovered a staggeringly reckless campaign of Russian sabotage in Europe, even as Putin and his acolytes resort to nuclear saber-rattling, to sow fear about the consequences of aiding Ukraine,” Moore said during a speech to diplomats and intelligence officials in France on Friday. In a warning to allies wavering in support for Ukraine, Moore said that “the cost of supporting Ukraine is well-known, but the cost of not doing so would be infinitely higher.” Trump has criticized the billions the Biden administration has spent in supporting Ukraine and has said he could end the war in 24 hours — comments that appear to suggest he would press Ukraine to surrender territory that Russia now occupies.

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