Blaise Metreweli, the first woman to lead MI6, highlighted the ‘threat’ posed by an ‘aggressive, expansionist and revisionist’ Russia
Russia has propelled the world into an “age of uncertainty” and the UK is now operating in “a space between peace and war”, Britain’s new MI6 spy chief said on Monday.
“Let’s be in no doubt. Our world is more dangerous and contested now than it has been for decades,”
Blaise Metreweli, the first woman to lead the MI6 Secret Intelligence Service, warned.
“Conflict is evolving and trust eroding, just as new technologies spur both competition and dependence,” she said.
In her maiden speech, the new head of Britain’s MI6 foreign intelligence service highlighted the “threat” posed by an “aggressive, expansionist and revisionist” Russia.
In its war against Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin “is dragging out negotiations and shifting the cost of war onto his own population”, she said.
“Russia is testing us in the grey zone with tactics that are just below the threshold of war,” she added.