Article 7057V Outgoing MI6 chief says Putin has ‘bitten off more than he can chew’ in Ukraine

Outgoing MI6 chief says Putin has ‘bitten off more than he can chew’ in Ukraine

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Ruth Michaelson in Istanbul
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Richard Moore said Russia was unlikely to win on battlefield, as his agency launched call to recruit spies

The outgoing head of MI6 has issued a damning indictment of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, saying that Vladimir Putin has bitten off more than he can chew".

Richard Moore, known within MI6 as C, used his farewell speech in Istanbul to say that while Russia was unlikely to win on the battlefield, his agency was seeking to recruit spies inside Russia and worldwide in order to fight back.

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