Russian President Vladimir Putin is stalling efforts to end Russia’s war on Ukraine, and is testing the West with tactics that fall “just below the threshold of war,” the head of Britain’s MI6 spy age...

Russia is trying to "bully, fearmonger and manipulate" the UK and its allies with attacks under the threshold of all-out war, the new head of MI6 has said.

Ms Metreweli, the first woman “C” – as the Chief of the SIS is traditionally known – used her debut public outing to warn of the acute threat posed by an “aggressive, expansionist, and revisionist” Ru...