Vladimir Putin has been recruiting far-right extremists to carry out a terror attack on British soil.

Russia-drafted terrorists conducted a number of attacks in Western Europe in the past six months.

Extremists are being recruited by undercover officers from Russia’s military intelligence agency.

Members of the Wagner Group have also been behind the recruitment drive across Nato countries.

An intelligence source told National Security News: "The GRU are cultivating a network of right-wing terrorists to deploy against Nato targets.

"These attacks are already happening and have been going on for a while in various Nato countries and the UK is definitely on the target list.

"Attacks may have taken place in the US and have occurred in Germany.”

The source added: "Intelligence agencies are now actively warning their governments that the threat is very real.

"Right-wing extremists are being targeted because they are the group in the political spectrum who are pro-Russia, pro-Putin and very violent.

"There is also a lot of covert contact between right-wing groups in different countries."

Moscow’s decision to destabilise the West comes after a number of European nations opted to provide weapons support to Ukraine.

Mark Galeotti, director of the think tank Mayak Intelligence, told the Telegraph: "As far as Putin is concerned, Ukraine does what it is told.

"When he sees Russian factories being attacked, he sees the hands of the CIA, of Nato."

The situation comes after Putin was enraged by comments made by Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron about Ukraine using UK military aid in its war with Russia.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "The Kremlin views Cameron’s statements about Kyiv’s right to use British weapons to strike the Russian Federation as a direct escalation."

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova added: "Russia is responding to that and will continue to respond."

A British-born Russian spy was last month charged with masterminding an arson attack in a plot led by the Wagner Group.

Dylan Earl, 20, was accused of planning and paying for an arson attack on a Ukrainian aid centre in London.

Prosecutor David Cawthorne said Earl had been "recruited online by those acting on behalf of Russia and the terrorist organisation the Wagner Group" to engage in "malign activity".

The attack sparked a "significant fire" which Cawthorne alleged was intended to send a message to the UK that assisting Ukraine will be met with punishment.