Recent intelligence assessments show Russian President Vladimir Putin has no intention of reaching a peace deal with Ukraine, Britain’s former spy chief said, confirming a view underpinning a harder line from the U.S. and its allies.
Richard Moore, who stepped down as head of MI6 in September, told Bloomberg’s "The Mishal Husain Show" that the Russian president would need more convincing to reach an agreement of the sort sought by U.S. President president Donald Trump. His assessment backs up reports last month that U.S. intelligence also saw Putin continuing his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
"Under current conditions — I’m basing this on access I had a few weeks ago to our understanding of the intelligence — he’s not ready to do a deal,” Moore told Mishal Husain. "For me, the answer to that is he needs to be put under more pressure, so he is prepared to do a deal.”
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