Russian soldiers not carrying out orders and sabotaging own equipment: British spy chief | Anthony Galloway
The head of Britain’s cyber spy agency says new intelligence shows Russian soldiers in Ukraine are refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their own equipment and have accidentally shot down their aircraft.
“It increasingly looks like Putin has massively misjudged the situation. It’s clear he misjudged the resistance of the Ukrainian people,” he said. “It all adds up to the strategic miscalculation that Western leaders warned Putin it would be. It’s become his personal war, with the cost being paid by innocent people in Ukraine and increasingly, by ordinary Russians too,” he said.Sir Jeremy said Russia had made a strategic choice to align with China as it has become more powerful and in the current crisis Moscow sees Beijing as a supplier of weapons, a provider of technology and a means to circumvent sanctions.
“And it is equally clear that a China that wants to set the rules of the road – the norms for a new global governance – is not well served by close alliance with a regime that wilfully and illegally ignores them all.”
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