Kate is a Senior Trends Reporter at HuffPost UK, covering the day's most compelling stories. She has worked in the national news since she became a qualified journalist and was previously a reporter with Express.co.uk
Russia n President Vladimir Putin 's representatives in the UK embassy had something to say about the recent allegations from the MI5 director.But the Russia n Embassy in London rejected his remarks overnight, and decided to come up with their own bizarre theory as to why McCallum might have issued such a strong warning.
They also claimed: “The scare tactics he seeks to employ are clearly aimed at sustaining the ebbing public support for the Kyiv regime which is quickly draining the UK’s finances and arsenals.
Meanwhile, McCallum warned state threat investigations had risen by 48% in the last year, because Moscow and its allies in Iran are now using criminals to act as their proxies and cause chaos abroad. The intelligence chief also discussed the threat the Russia’s secret service, GRU, poses to the UK in his annual speech on threats facing the country.
“The GRU in particular are on a sustained mission to generate mayhem in British streets,” he said from the government’s Counter-Terrorism Operations Centre in West London. “We’ve seen arson, sabotage and more. Dangerous actions conducted with increasing recklessness.”An Iranian spokesperson alleged McCallum’s words were just repetitive “accusations”, and accused the UK of hosting “terrorist groups” which take advantage of free speech to promote violence.
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