A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them

Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin's plans to invade, and why most of Europe - including the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy - dismissed them. As the fourth anniversary of the invasion approaches and the world enters a new period of geopolitical uncertainty, Europe's politicians and spy services continue to draw lessons from the failures of 2022