From a dance studio in northern Russia, a Cuban instructor appears to have woven a quiet web of sabotage across four European nations, recruiting economically desperate Latin Americans to set fire to the infrastructure sustaining Ukraine. The operation illuminates a deliberate shift in modern espionage: when diplomats are expelled and official channels close, intelligence services turn to the anonymous and the vulnerable, people who can be found, used, and discarded without leaving a visible thread back to the state. At least nine lives have been upended by prison sentences, while the man at t
Cuban dance teacher coordinated Russian sabotage network across EU in 2024
At least nine people arrested and convicted; Luis Alfonso Murillo Diosa sentenced to six years in prison for attempted sabotage after being recruited under false pretenses.