MI5 Chief calls Russia UK’s No. 1 aggressor

This is stated in the annual threat assessment delivered by MI5 Director General Ken McCallum, Ukrinform reports. “Russia remains aggressor number one, as Putin’s Kremlin continues to lash out at the UK and its allies,” McCallum said. According to the agency, Moscow has no intention of starting a war with Western countries at present, but has launched a large-scale hybrid influence campaign across Europe. “The Russian military and intelligence services are once again escalating their attempts at hybrid warfare – being careful to stay below the NATO Article V threshold it’d be foolish for them to cross. This means Russia is using tactics that stop short – though sometimes not much short – of conventional conflict,” the intelligence chief said.