{"id":83175,"date":"2026-05-30T07:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83175"},"modified":"2026-05-30T07:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:57:09","slug":"russian-spies-on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/russian-spies-on-the-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Spies On The Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s intelligence agencies have grown more aggressive in their efforts to steal Western technology and defense secrets as sanctions squeeze<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">the country\u2019s wartime economy<\/a><\/span>, three senior European intelligence officials told The Associated Press.\u00a0Moscow\u2019s agents are building fake companies, recruiting middlemen and deploying cyber spies and hackers who are gathering information that\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-putin-ukraine-war-zelenskyy-0c31bbbf0d06c457c00d046bc7ba99f7\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">could also be used<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to attack key infrastructure, they said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Four years of international sanctions have hampered Moscow\u2019s ability to procure machinery, technology and research from Europe, while\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-diplomats-lavrov-rubio-2abde640e27e7b320715d74358ba28f3\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">the grinding war in Ukraine<\/a><\/span>\u00a0has taxed key industries and pushed the country\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-war-economy-taxes-ukraine-putin-aa58356ff3c5cf04c5dbf795dddfb90f\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">toward a potential financial crisis<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1780127829\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Russian Spies On The Move\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Russia\u2019s intelligence agencies have grown more aggressive in their efforts to steal Western technology and defense secrets as.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83176,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83175\/revisions\/83176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}