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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Shaun Walker

Is Russia spying more – or are more spies just being caught?

The passport of ‘Ludwig Gisch’, who was arrested in Ljubljana last year on suspicion of being a deep-cover Russian spy.
The passport of ‘Ludwig Gisch’, who was arrested in Ljubljana last year on suspicion of being a deep-cover Russian spy. Photograph: supplied

Since Russia launched its full-scale war in Ukraine last February, hardly a week goes by without news of Russian spies, agents or informants being unmasked somewhere in the world.

A security guard at the British embassy in Berlin, sentenced to 13 years in prison. An alleged mole inside Germany’s intelligence service, suspected of passing information to Moscow. Nine people arrested in Poland accused of tracking weapons deliveries to Ukraine and planning acts of sabotage.

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