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Latest news Ukraine

US lawyer helped connect FSB operatives with Zelenskyy campaign in 2019, The Times says

A Moscow-based spy ring led by Vladimir Sivkovych compromised Ukraine’s security service by embedding agent Oleh Kulinich years before Russia’s full-scale invasion.

byYuri Zoria

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Latest news Ukraine

Russian nuclear scientists may still spy on CERN through FSB-linked institute exempt from sanctions, Forbes warns

The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), located near Moscow, continues to allow Russian scientists to spy on CERN’s cutting-edge nuclear research, bypassing international sanctions and raising serious security concerns.

byYevheniia Martyniuk

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis.

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Latest news Ukraine

Lithuania warns of espionage risk from Hungary’s new visa rules for Russian citizens

Citing increased incidents of diversions and sabotage across Europe allegedly linked to Russian espionage, Lithuania raised concerns about Hungary's decision to allow easier entry for Russians and Belarusians into the EU.

byVira Kravchuk

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Latest news Ukraine

German authorities thwart suspected Russian sabotage plot targeting military aid to Ukraine

Two men described as German-Russian dual nationals were suspected of spying for Moscow and arrested.

byOrysia Hrudka

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Latest news Ukraine

WSJ: Wirecard fraudster CEO was Russian agent for nearly a decade

Jan Marsalek mysteriously disappeared after Wirecard claimed $2 billion was missing. But the vanishing exec now faces accusations far beyond fraud - officials say he operated as a Russian spy before escaping to Moscow.

byAlya Shandra

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Analysis

VSquare: Russian spies still call Brussels home

Kirill Logvinov, Russia's top diplomat to the EU, has continued wining and dining Brussels diplomats despite being identified as a Russian intelligence officer. Logvinov regularly hosts lavish dinners where he spreads anti-Ukrainian propaganda, even as Brussels looks the other way.

byYevheniia Martyniuk

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Latest news Ukraine

Russian agent detained in Odesa, convicted for 15 years in jail

The court in Odesa found guilty local resident who became agent of Russian FSB. He was convicted for…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Derkach’s seven: the Russian-linked Ukrainians sanctioned by US over election interference

On 11 January 2021, the US Department of the Treasury reported that the US Department of the Treasury’s…

byYuri Zoria

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War in Donbas

Ukraine detains deep cover GRU sleeper agent who might be highest ranking MH17 witness yet

The man is mentioned in the report by the first letter of his last name as "citizen K.",…

byYuri Zoria

On April 14, the Security Service of Ukraine reported it had arrested a “mole” within its ranks—Major General Valerii Shaitanov, who served as the chief of the service’s Center for Special Operations “A.” He was detained under suspicion of state treason and for allegedly carrying out terrorist attacks. (Photo: ssu.gov.ua)

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The political dimension of Russia’s spy war in Ukraine

Since the beginning of the undeclared Russian-Ukrainian war in early 2014, the secret services of both countries have…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Russia's only aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov on its way to Syria in October 2016 to participate in Putin's campaign to defend the dictatorial Assad regime. (Photo: social media)

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Ukrainian espionage incident highlights ongoing Russian naval shortcomings

Russian-Ukrainian relations, increasingly tense since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, plummeted to a new low after…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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Germany and Russia: The end of the honeymoon period?

The term “schröderization“ is well-known in German business and political circles, as it accurately describes how many influential…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

Dmytro Kmelnytskyi. (Photo: cyprus-daily.news)

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Acquiring agents of influence – major task of Russian spy services, Khmelnytskyi says

Moscow’s efforts to recruit spies perhaps not surprisingly has always attracted more attention than its work to recruit…

byPaul A. Goble

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“I was told we should work with fascists”: former KGB officer Zhirnov

Recently, British media reported that half of the Russian diaspora in the UK are informants of the special…

byKseniya Kirillova

Sergey Zhirnov, a former Soviet KGB illegal who defected and now lives in France (Photo: zimamagazine.com)

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Moscow has increased intel ops staff by four times since 1991 and counter-intel even more, former KGB illegal says

Western media have been fixated on a report that Moscow now has 200 case officers working in London…

byPaul A. Goble

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Putin actively using Cold War Stasi agent network in Germany, Reitschuster says

Boris Reitschuster, author of Putin’s Secret War, says that the Kremlin is “actively using the old agent network”…

byPaul A. Goble

World War III: Putin's hybrid war against Western democracies using the Russian secret services, propaganda journalism and corruption of foreign elites.

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Moscow has complex system to run agents of influence abroad, Khmelnytskyi says

As Moscow’s geopolitical isolation has increased, Dmytro Khmelnytskyi says, the role of its agents of influence abroad and…

byPaul A. Goble

A line for US visas at the US General Consulate in Yekaterinburg. From 1 September 2017, issuance of US visas has been limited to the Moscow consulate. (Image: afterempire.com)

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Russian campaign against US consulate in Yekaterinburg has long history, Kirillova says

In response to the closing of the Russian consulate in San Francisco and of two trade representations in…

byPaul A. Goble

A Russian paramilitary group in the US wearing uniforms of the Russian Federation airborne troops, some participants have their combat medals (Image: slavicsac.com)

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Moscow diplomats said behind formation of militarized Russian and Cossack groups in US

Ruslan Gurzhiy, a journalist for a Russian émigré publication in Sacramento, California, says that Russian diplomats and oligarchs…

byPaul A. Goble

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Containment of Putin’s Russia in today’s globalized world won’t be easy or even enough

Ever more people are calling for the containment of Putin’s Russia and some are even celebrating that the…

byPaul A. Goble

Russian spy network

US lawyer helped connect FSB operatives with Zelenskyy campaign in 2019, The Times says

Russian nuclear scientists may still spy on CERN through FSB-linked institute exempt from sanctions, Forbes warns

Lithuania warns of espionage risk from Hungary’s new visa rules for Russian citizens

German authorities thwart suspected Russian sabotage plot targeting military aid to Ukraine

WSJ: Wirecard fraudster CEO was Russian agent for nearly a decade

VSquare: Russian spies still call Brussels home

Russian agent detained in Odesa, convicted for 15 years in jail

Derkach’s seven: the Russian-linked Ukrainians sanctioned by US over election interference

Ukraine detains deep cover GRU sleeper agent who might be highest ranking MH17 witness yet

The political dimension of Russia’s spy war in Ukraine

Ukrainian espionage incident highlights ongoing Russian naval shortcomings

Germany and Russia: The end of the honeymoon period?

Acquiring agents of influence – major task of Russian spy services, Khmelnytskyi says

“I was told we should work with fascists”: former KGB officer Zhirnov

Moscow has increased intel ops staff by four times since 1991 and counter-intel even more, former KGB illegal says

Putin actively using Cold War Stasi agent network in Germany, Reitschuster says

Moscow has complex system to run agents of influence abroad, Khmelnytskyi says

Russian campaign against US consulate in Yekaterinburg has long history, Kirillova says

Moscow diplomats said behind formation of militarized Russian and Cossack groups in US

Containment of Putin’s Russia in today’s globalized world won’t be easy or even enough

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