A Russian court has sentenced Georgy Pirogov to 23 years in a high-security penal colony for spying for Polish intelligence, with the FSB announcing the verdict the day after Poland said it had detained a Russian national suspected of planning a killing in Warsaw.
The FSB said Pirogov left Russia after the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, established contact with a representative of Polish military intelligence in Poland in April 2022, and was then tasked with collecting and passing classified information about Russian weapons used in the war.