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Evening Standard
National
Emily Pennink

'Russian spy' says suspicions first raised at base training Ukraine forces

A woman accused of spying for Russia has told jurors she began questioning her “real purpose” at a US Army base believed to have been used to train Ukrainian soldiers on the Patriot missile system.

Bulgarians Katrin Ivanova, 33, Vanya Gaberova, 30, and Tihomir Ivanov Ivanchev, 39, were allegedly part of a group which carried out surveillance on places and people of interest to the Russian state between August 30 2020 and February 8 2023.

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