Vladimir Putin’s secret service agents are refusing to work in Russian -occupied areas of Ukraine in a major Kremlin snub.
Even salaries six to eight times higher than normal levels are failing to persuade counter-intelligence officers to move to invaded areas.
Putin urgently needs both regular and military intelligence operatives to enforce his rule in the two “people’s republics” in eastern Ukraine, Donetsk and Luhansk, but also in Kherson, Zaporozhzhia and Kharkiv regions.
