{"id":144174,"date":"2021-06-30T10:06:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T07:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=144174"},"modified":"2021-06-30T10:18:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T07:18:47","slug":"states-that-detected-russian-intelligence-activity-in-2020-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/states-that-detected-russian-intelligence-activity-in-2020-2021","title":{"rendered":"States That Detected Russian Intelligence Activity in 2020-2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/States-That-Detected-Russian-Intelligence-Activity-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2146\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 2560 2146'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/States-That-Detected-Russian-Intelligence-Activity-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"States That Detected Russian Intelligence Activity\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-144187\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/States-That-Detected-Russian-Intelligence-Activity-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/States-That-Detected-Russian-Intelligence-Activity-1-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/States-That-Detected-Russian-Intelligence-Activity-1-1024x858.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/States-That-Detected-Russian-Intelligence-Activity-1-768x644.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/States-That-Detected-Russian-Intelligence-Activity-1-608x510.jpg 608w, https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/States-That-Detected-Russian-Intelligence-Activity-1-758x635.jpg 758w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As Russia\u2019s hybrid influence abroad is regularly exposed, the expulsion of its diplomats has become quite a common thing. Numerous countries have detected intelligence officers under the disguise of Russian diplomatic staff in recent years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Here\u2019s an overview of the most recent cases:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>In April 2021, The Czech Republic expelled 18 Russian diplomats, which it deemed were intelligence agents, after it accused Russia of organizing the explosions at the ammunition depot in the Vrb\u011btice complex back in 2014. Two Russian agents were suspected of direct involvement in the operation, \u201cPetrov\u201d and \u201cBoshyrov\u201d, also accused by the UK government of poisoning Skripals in 2018.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>A Russian diplomat involved in receiving classified documents from an Italian naval captain in exchange for money and his superior were expelled by Italy in March 2021. The files passed on by the naval officer allegedly included documents on NATO.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>In the same month, Bulgaria declared \u2018persona non grata\u2019 two Russian diplomats for suspected espionage. This followed the uncovering of a spy ring led by a former senior Bulgarian military intelligence officer: its members had been passing classified information about Bulgaria, NATO and the EU to the Russian embassy in Sofia.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We put together an infographic with all the states that exposed Russian intelligence officers under the guise of diplomatic personnel in 2020\u20132021.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Russia\u2019s hybrid influence abroad is regularly exposed, the expulsion of its diplomats has become quite a common thing. Numerous countries have detected intelligence officers under the disguise of Russian diplomatic staff in recent years.&nbsp; Here\u2019s an overview of the most recent cases: In April 2021, The Czech Republic expelled 18 Russian diplomats, which it [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/states-that-detected-russian-intelligence-activity-in-2020-2021\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[700,699],"tags":[],"section":[726],"form":[31938],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>States That Detected Russian Intelligence Activity in 2020-2021 | UACRISIS.ORG<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As Russia\u2019s hybrid influence abroad is regularly exposed, the expulsion of its diplomats has become quite a common thing. 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