The British national transmitted coordinates of facilities in southern Ukraine where he had personally trained recruits, giving Russia targeting data on active military infrastructure.
The Kremlin insisted Russia will determine the timing of any peace negotiations. Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces destroyed a Russian electronic warfare facility in the occupied Black Sea area. In Ukraine, a pilot instructor was arrested for selling Western fighter jet secrets to Moscow while the European Union threatened to withhold $3.3 billion in crucial funding over Ukraine's repeated failure to reform its anti-corruption agencies.
The arrested major served in an air brigade tasked with shooting down the same Russian drones and missiles his intelligence helped target Ukrainian airbases.
A middle-aged female agent recruited by Russian military intelligence used social media to coordinate missile strikes, while seeking sensitive military information, a court found.
The male suspect used food aid delivery routes to gather and transmit sensitive military information about Ukrainian defense positions to an identified Russian intelligence officer.
Hungary began allowing Russian and Belarusian citizens to enter as guest workers without security checks, with the option to bring their families and apply for permanent residency after three years.
A purportedly independent Russian think tank is urging Europe to welcome millions of wealthy Russian emigres as "relocants" amid Russia's war in Ukraine to bolster European economy. But that proposal collides with the recent exposure revealed in The Wall Street Journal of an undercover Russian couple working for years as Kremlin spies residing in Slovenia.