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Disposable: The Ordinary People Doing Russia’s Dirty Work

Summary by Politico Europe
The Kremlin is recruiting civilians to carry out sabotage across Europe.

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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Sung-jin = Russia is actively utilizing local civilians as 'disposable agents' for sabotage operations targeting European countries...

·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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Rome, 9 Nov. (askanews) "Common people, often with economic difficulties or criminal precedents, recruited through Telegram to transport packages, take photographs or deliver materials without necessarily knowing the real objective of operations. This would be the system of disposable agents through which the Russian military intelligence, the Crane, would build a network of [...]

The Kremlin uses a network of "one-of-a-kind agents to orchestrate a sabotage campaign in Europe. Behind the attacks with burning vests that alerted the Western secret services are not professional spies, but ordinary people, lured into the trap.

·Romania
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From online job offers on Telegram to missions against NATO bases: young people in poverty and local criminals used as cheap labour

·Bologna, Italy
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Quotidiano Nazionale broke the news in Bologna, Italy on Saturday, November 7, 2026.
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