Children of undercover Russian spy couple only learned their nationality on flight to Moscow

Russian spies' children learnt their nationality after prisoner swap

The Dultsev children thought they were from Argentina and cannot speak Russian.

Exchanged Sleeper Agents' Kids Didn’t Know They Were Russian

The children of the Russian sleeper agents arrested in Slovenia, who were released as part of yesterday’s prisoner swap, only learned their true nationality on the plane to Moscow.

Russian spies' children discovered their nationality during flight to Moscow: Kremlin

New revelations about the historic prisoner swap between US and Russia have surfaced. The Kremlin confirmed that some of the freed Russians were intelligence agents, and the children of a Russian spy couple were unaware of their true identity until they reached home. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that a detained couple released in Slovenia —Artem and Anna Dultsev— were undercover intelligence officers, known as 'illegals'.

Children of freed sleeper agents learn their Russian identity mid-flight, Kremlin reveals

MOSCOW, Aug 3 — A family of Russian sleeper agents flown to Moscow in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War were so deep under cover that their children found out they were Russians only after the flight took off, the Kremlin said yesterday. “Before that, they didn’t know that they were Russian and that they had anything to do with our country,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “And you probably saw that when the …

Putin greeted children of 2 Russian spies in Spanish as they were unaware of their nationality: Kremlin

The children of 2 Russian spies Artem Dultsev and Anna Dultseva, who were among 24 prisoners swapped as a part of the multi-country deal only found out about their nationality while they were on a plane to Moscow