Britain is waiting to see indicators of whether Russia is beginning to consider deploying its nuclear arsenal in a war with Ukraine, Sir Jeremy Fleming, the head of Britain’s GCHQ intelligence service (Government Communications Headquarters), said on Tuesday, but more than six months have passed since the war began. of war notes that Moscow is running out of ammunition, friends and troops, Reuters reports.

After more than seven months of war, Jeremy Fleming, director of the GCHQ spy agency, told BBC Radio 1 that Russia was running out of ammunition, friends and troops.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has so far adhered to established military doctrine of not using nuclear weapons, Fleming said, but his agency will be watching for signs that this may change.

“Hopefully we’ll see indicators if they start going down that path,” Fleming said, without specifying what those indicators might be.

“But let’s be clear, if they think about it, it will be a disaster in the sense that a lot of people have been talking about.”

Fleming also said he believed Putin was concerned about the danger of escalation, and that this could be a sign of why he “hasn’t gotten to these other forms of warfare.”

Russian citizens began to understand the situation

In a speech on Tuesday, the text of which has been partially released in advance, Fleming says Russians are beginning to understand Moscow’s desperation in the conflict.

“Russians see how Putin misjudged the situation. They flee from mobilization, realizing that they can no longer travel. They know that access to modern technologies and external influences will be sharply limited. And they feel the magnitude of the terrible human cost of the war he chose,” Fleming also asserts.​