Russia’s Wagner Group pivots to European sabotage, say western officials

Financial Times: …Wagner recruiters who specialised in persuading young men from Russia’s hinterland to fight in Ukraine have been given a new task — recruiting economically vulnerable Europeans to carry out violence on Nato soil, the officials said.

Russia’s military intelligence agency (GRU) “is using the talent it has got available to it”, said one western intelligence official, referring to the Wagner network.

The GRU and Russia’s domestic intelligence agency (FSB) have both become highly active in seeking to recruit “disposable” agents in Europe to sow chaos…