Politico: With its own officers finding it harder to operate in Europe since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the GRU increasingly relies on intermediaries to recruit people through messaging services such as Telegram, according to investigative files from Lithuania’s State Security Department obtained by the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network, of which POLITICO is a part of.
Often motivated by money, these disposable agents carry out individual assignments: Take a photograph. Mail a parcel. Move something from A to B. Sometimes the tasks are far more dangerous. Recruits may know little about the wider operation. Anyone who gets caught can be replaced…