4 h. ago New MI6 head warns ‘the front line is everywhere’ as Russia threat grows

Blaise Metreweli says Vladimir Putin is exporting ‘chaos’

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6 h. ago MI6 chief says UK faces threat from Russia's desire to export chaos

The new head of MI6 is set to warn about Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to export chaos globally

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13 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Britain’s spy chief to warn of Russia’s ‘expansionist threat’ as Berlin talks enter second day

MI6 chief to deliver remarks on Monday warning ‘chaos is a feature not a bug in the Russian approach’; European leaders to join day two of talks in Berlin. What we know on day 1,391The head of Britain’s foreign spy service, known as MI6, will warn that Russia poses an “aggressive, expansionist, and revisionist” threat, in her first speech since taking office. Blaise Metreweli took over from Richard Moore in October, becoming the first female chief of MI6. “[Vladimir] Putin should be in no doubt, our support is enduring. The pressure we apply on Ukraine’s behalf will be sustained,” Metreweli will say on Monday, according to advance extracts of her remarks. “The export of chaos is a feature not a bug in the Russian approach to international engagement, and we should be ready for this to continue until Putin is forced to change his calculus,” she said, according to the extract.Separately, Richard Knighton, head of Britain’s armed forces, will also call in a separate speech on Monday fo...

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14 h. ago Britain’s new spy chief warns of acute threat to Europe from Vladimir Putin's 'aggressive' regime

Blaise Metreweli also says the ‘defining challenge’ of the 21st Century is not which nation has the most powerful technologies but who uses them with the ‘greatest wisdom’

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14 h. ago ‘The frontline is everywhere’: new MI6 head to warn of growing Russian threat

Blaise Metreweli expected to say UK faces new ‘age of uncertainty’ in speech identifying Kremlin as key threatAssassination plots, sabotage, cyber-attacks and the manipulation of information by Russia and other hostile states mean that “the frontline is everywhere”, the new head of MI6 will warn on Monday.Blaise Metreweli, giving her first speech in the job, is expected to say the UK faces a new “age of uncertainty” where the rules of conflict are being rewritten, particularly in light of wider Kremlin aggression after the invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago 'As dangerous a situation as I've known in my career': Defence chief's chilling speech on the threat of Putin

As the threat from Russia grows, Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Richard Knighton will say the whole country needs to 'step up' to stave off Vladimir Putin's aggression.

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16 h. ago Armed forces chief to warn ‘whole nation must step up’ amid Russian threat to Nato

Chief of the Defence Staff Sir Richard Knighton will warn the situation is ‘more dangerous than I have known during my career’.

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30 h. ago World War III inches closer as Putin upscales 'unstoppable' nuclear

Russia is poised to upscale its threat to the West by deploying within days its new 'unstoppable' nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile complex in Belarus from where it could hit London 'in eight minutes'.

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3 d. ago Government says 'shadow of war is knocking' in threat from Russia

The armed forces minister says the UK has to 'increase our lethality'

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3 d. ago China wants a "super embassy" in London that former MI6 chief says is alarming

China wants a "super embassy" in London that former MI6 chief says is alarming  Yahoo

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4 d. ago NATO chief warns war with Russia 'is at our door' and tells Europe to be ready for action 'now' to avoid battle on scale 'our grandparents and great

In a speech in Berlin, Rutte said too many allies of the military alliance did not feel the urgency of Russia's threat in Europe.

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4 d. ago Russia issues WW3 threat to UK as British paratrooper killed in Ukraine

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned that the Kremlin will respond to any hostile steps including deployment of European military contingents in Ukraine.

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5 d. ago Russia issues WW3 threat to UK and reveals what would lead Putin to attack

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has revealed what could trigger Russia to 'go to war with Europe' in a thinly-veiled threat to the UK

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5 d. ago Santa at war: ‘home’ town in Finland hosts Nato soldiers as Russian threat looms

Christmas tourists are noticing a growing military presence in Lapland, where Santa Park doubles as a bomb shelterBilled as the official home town of Santa Claus, or joulupukki as he is known in Finland, the city of Rovaniemi offers every imaginable Father Christmas-related experience – from a visit to his “office” on the Arctic Circle to reindeer sleigh rides. He even has his own branch of the Finnish design house Marimekko.But this Christmas season, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of tourists from around the world coming in search of Santa, Finnish Lapland’s snow-covered capital is becoming an increasingly popular destination for international military visitors. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Former Navy chief issues warning over ‘horrifying’ British submarines amid Russia threat

Labour peer Lord West of Spithead said the silent service was in its worst condition across his 60 years of military service

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7 d. ago Moscow praises Trump's new 'national security strategy' which warns mass migration will leave Europe 'unrecognisable within 20 years' and does not cast Russia as a threat

The Kremlin publicly embraced the sweeping 33-page report, which outlines the US president's vision for the world and sets out dramatic changes to American priorities.

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7 d. ago Atlantic Bastion: the UK’s response to Russia’s submarine threat

Defence secretary says new strategy and technology is ‘a blueprint for the future of the Royal Navy’

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8 d. ago Russia's chilling WW3 threat to 23 UK towns and cities as Brit targets mapped

Senator and war veteran Dmitry Rogozin, who previously served as deputy premier and space agency chief, posted a map highlighting UK defence-related sites as potential targets

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1 week ago WW3 threat as Russian minister declares 'war with Europe is inevitable'

As tensions rise between Russia and the West, one minister has declared that Europe is gearing up to take on Russia, and is "deliberately" preparing for war, a move the Kremlin says it is ready for

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1 week ago Russia issues WW3 threat as Europe 'deliberately preparing for inevitable war'

Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said war with Europe is 'inevitable' and accused the West of 'deliberately' preparing for an armed conflict with Vladimir Putin

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