UK intelligence head flags rising Russian hybrid threats
Blaise Metreweli, the first woman to lead the Secret Intelligence Service, said Moscow is “testing us in the grey zone with tactics that are just below the threshold of war.” Speaking publicly for the first time on Monday, she characterized Russia as an increasingly destabilizing force, warning of “the menace of an aggressive, expansionist, and revisionist Russia.” Metreweli emphasized that the UK would continue supporting Ukraine and maintaining pressure on President Vladimir Putin.
She cited drones over airports and airbases across Europe, cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, and disinformation campaigns as evidence of Russia’s hybrid warfare. Recent sanctions against Russian entities accused of information warfare, she said, reflect a broader strategy: “The export of chaos is a feature, not a bug, in this Russian approach to international engagement.”
Metreweli, who took over from Richard Moore on October 1, also announced a renewed focus on technology within MI6. She urged staff to develop digital expertise alongside traditional espionage skills: “We will become as comfortable with lines of [computer] code as we are with human sources, as fluent in Python as we are in multiple languages.”
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