UK spy chief says almost 500,000 Russian troops have been killed in the Ukraine war [SOUND]

# UK spy agency GCHQ director, Anne Keast-Butler, says Britain is at a moment of consequence, with the country facing increasingly brazen behaviour from hostile nations, including Russia. She revealed her office’s annual threat assessment, saying they are helping to counter reckless sabotage and assassination attempts by the Kremlin. Keast-Butler says Putin is going backwards on the battlefield, with new intelligence showing that almost half a million Russian soldiers have been killed since the conflict began: