New MI6 Chief Warns Putin is ‘Dragging Out’ Ukraine Talks

The new chief of Britain’s foreign intelligence service MI6 accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of deliberately prolonging negotiations to put an end to the war in Ukraine, in an assessment that complicates President Donald Trump’s efforts to broker a deal by year-end.

“We all continue to face the menace of an aggressive, expansionist and revisionist Russia, seeking to subjugate Ukraine and NATO members,” Blaise Metreweli said in her first public appearance since she became the head of MI6 in September. She said of Putin: “He is dragging out negotiations and shifting the cost of war onto his own population.”