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

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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 new spies inside Russia and worldwide in order to fight back.