{"id":848511,"date":"2026-03-25T03:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/848511\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T03:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:54:14","slug":"how-recruits-end-up-in-russian-sabotage-training-camps-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/848511\/","title":{"rendered":"How recruits end up in Russian sabotage training camps \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a document seen by POLITICO and circulated by Moldova to EU officials shortly after the parliamentary election, the government documented how Orthodox<strong> <\/strong>priests in the country had received \u201cinstructions to spread disinformation seven days a week instead of only on Sundays.\u201d Moscow also offered people in the country \u201cguidance on how to set up and manage Telegram channels,\u201d a messaging platform popular in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The government has also highlighted the use of large-scale vote-buying networks, staged protests, cyberattacks, troll farms and AI-generated deepfakes \u2014 with Russian proxies paid, sometimes in cryptocurrency, according to a performance-based system of financial bonuses.<\/p>\n<p>Moldova said it has been dismantling networks of foreign-trained operatives sponsored by Moscow since 2024. \u201cWe are talking here about trainings organized in Serbia, in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in the Russian Federation,\u201d said Misail-Nichitin, the interior minister.<\/p>\n<p>Misail-Nichitin said that cases like the one against Prizenco show how the networks that targeted Moldova have stretched their operations beyond the country\u2019s borders. As a recent example she pointed to an <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/moldova-ukraine-investigate-alleged-russian-backed-plot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">alleged plot to assassinate several public figures in Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are talking about more than 90 targets, spanning high-profile journalists, defense officials, high-level executives linked to Ukraine\u2019s critical infrastructure, who were going to be assassinated on command,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Recruiters in that operation, she said, targeted \u201cvulnerable young men\u201d with no criminal records and with EU passports, if possible, some of them as young as 14 or 15 years of age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a document seen by POLITICO and circulated by Moldova to EU officials shortly after the parliamentary election,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7655],"tags":[96336,36,1824,31865,2818,51099,13491,332,6567,2601],"class_list":["post-848511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-russia","tag-bosnia-herzegovina","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-hybrid-threats","tag-intelligence-services","tag-maia-sandu","tag-moldova","tag-russia","tag-serbia","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116287797001926569","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}