They say that like there was a time where Russia wasn't assassinating people lol
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2024
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His killing /... / last month has raised fears that Russia’s European spy networks continue to operate...
Eh? Raised fears? What kind of moron doesn't fully expect Russia to spy like crazy, all the time, and even more so since the last couple of years? It's one thing they've always been very good at, and somehow manages to turn people in high up places in other countries, continously. If we don't find direct evidence of them spying it's not because they've stopped or decreased their spying activities.
The one thing they're good at unless someone is trying to make a terrorist attack against Russia.
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I'd say this is less on the ability of Russian assassin's and more on this guy for reaching out to his girlfriend back in Russia.
In Spain, Mr. Kuzminov lived “an indiscreet life,” the senior Guardia Civil official said. He went to bars popular with Russian and Ukrainian clientele, burning through the money he had received from the Ukrainian state. He drove around Villajoyosa in a black Mercedes S-Class.
Exactly how the killers found him has not been established, though two senior Ukrainian officials said he had reached out to a former girlfriend, still in Russia, and invited her to come see him in Spain.
“This was a grave mistake,” one of the officials said.
I mean it's silly to assume his whereabouts would remain secret if he didn't do that.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
His killing in the seaside resort town of Villajoyosa last month has raised fears that Russia’s European spy networks continue to operate and are targeting enemies of the Kremlin, despite concerted efforts to dismantle them after Mr. Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022.
Senior police officials speaking on the condition of anonymity said the killing bore hallmarks of similar attacks linked to the Kremlin, including the assassination of a former Chechen rebel commander in Berlin in 2019 and the poisoning of the former Russian military intelligence operative Sergei V. Skripal in Salisbury, England, in 2018.
The two hooded killers who appeared on surveillance camera footage from the parking garage of Mr. Kuzminov’s apartment complex were clearly professionals who carried out their mission and quickly disappeared, police officials said.
Weeks after his defection, the Kremlin’s signature Sunday evening news program ran a segment quoting fellow pilots and commandos from Russia’s military intelligence service vowing revenge.
While the unit had been able to persuade individual Russians and sometimes small groups of soldiers to defect, Mr. Kuzminov’s daring flight — and the high value of what he delivered — was unprecedented, said a senior Ukrainian official with knowledge of the operation.
Spain’s annual report on national security threats, published this month, said Russia had revamped its intelligence operations in the country after the expulsion of 27 Russian diplomats over the war in Ukraine.
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