‘Russia thinks it is at war with Britain'

RUSSIA’S leaders believe they are “at war” with Britain and could even bring down the EU, a former spy who wrote the infamous “dirty dossier” on Donald Trump has said.

- Berny Torre

MI6’s former chief Kremlin expert Christopher Steele, 57, even suspects Russian agents may have left him a threatening “calling card”.

He said intruders put two wedding rings in his wife’s washbag while they were on a Caribbean holiday, about 18 months after his name emerged as the author of the dossier.

Asked what message he thought they were sending, Mr Steele said: “We know where you are. We can get to you. Don’t think you’ll be able to hide from us.”

In his first British TV interview after his dossier’s bombshell claims of Russia’s influence on the Trump campaign in the 2016 US election, Mr Steele warned of a growing threat.