Top spy shot dead with silenced pistol in Kyiv & Ukrainian partisans sabotage railways in former Stalingrad

Day 1,233.


Today, as Kyiv endures yet another mass aerial attack and Pres
Zel arr in Rome for the annual Ukraine Recovery Conference, we
report on espionage activities inside Ukraine, and later we talk
to the Chief Adoption Officer of the NATO Innovation Fund.


Contributors:


Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls
on X.


Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley
on X.


With thanks to John Ridge (Chief Adoption Officer of the NATO
Innovation Fund).


Content Referenced:


Ukrainian spy assassinated by gunman in Kyiv (The Telegraph):


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/10/ukrainian-spy-assassinated-by-gunman-in-kyiv/ 


 


Chinese father and son arrested for spying on Ukraine’s missile
programme (The Telegraph):


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/10/ukraine-arrests-chinese-father-son-spying-neptune-missile/ 


Russia grooms Ukrainian teens as spies and saboteurs 
(Financial Times):


https://www.ft.com/content/5cb5ebf9-bfb3-4a50-bc2f-79540baf8f87 


Secret Russian Intelligence Document Shows Deep Suspicion of
China (New York Times):


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/world/europe/china-russia-spies-documents-putin-war.html 


Gardaí investigate bomb found at Russian-owned refinery in
Limerick (Irish Times):


https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/07/06/gardai-probe-bomb-found-at-russian-owned-refinery-in-limerick





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