"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 spies inside Russia and worldwide in order to fight back. Putin has sought to convince the world that Russian victory is inevitable, but he lies. He lies to the world. He lies to his people. Perhaps he even lies to himself, said Moore."
"Any Russian victories on the battlefield remained incremental, said Moore, and incurred massive costs as the president's army fell far short of its original aims to swiftly capture all of Ukraine. The rising costs now included more than a million casualties a quarter of them poorly trained troops from Russia's poorest regions that were fed into the meat grinder, he said."
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is overextended and unlikely to produce decisive victory, with battlefield gains described as incremental and achieved at massive cost. Casualties now exceed more than a million, including a significant share of poorly trained conscripts from impoverished regions. MI6 has begun active recruitment efforts for intelligence inside Russia and worldwide, using outreach channels including a dark‑web portal and targeting areas with high Russian visitor traffic such as Turkey. External assistance from Iran, China, and North Korea has bolstered Russia's campaign, helping to avert internal collapse and delaying any inevitable ceasefire.
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