The secretary of the National Security Council of Ukraine, Oleksiy Danilov, has described Vienna as a safe haven for Russian agents: “Vienna has become another capital where Russian agents are hiding. It’s just crawling with them. That has developed historically.”
The secretary of the Ukrainian Security and Defense Council (RNBO) also indicated in an interview with the online newspaper Liga.net, as the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform reported on Saturday, that pro-Russian Ukrainian politician Yevgeny Murayev could flee to Vienna or Moscow. . to be.
Failed in 2019 general election
Murayev is the leader of the Nashi (“Our”) party, which failed to pass the five percent hurdle in the 2019 parliamentary election. A few days ago, an appeals court in Lviv (Lemberg) decided to ban the activities of the Nashi party. An appeal can be lodged against the judgment with the Supreme Court.
Vienna – Hofburg for spies
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the search for Russian spies has been fraught with fever. Even after the end of World War II and during the Cold War, Vienna was considered a stronghold for international agents. Due to its geographic location for intelligence activities, Vienna was attractive to many countries.
Two of the most spectacular espionage cases in the capital were the 2010 exchange of agents at the airport between the US and Russia and the arrest warrant for Kremlin murderers who fled via Vienna to Moscow after the explosion at a Czech munitions factory in 2021.
Source: Krone
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