2026-08-22 09:29 UTC
Russia has continued to pummel Ukraine, using increasingly high-tech equipment, with “devastating consequences”. When Ukrainians started digging through the rubble after major attacks to analyse fragments of the Russian weaponry, they realised a lot of the most high-tech components were coming from Japan. Tokyo is a vocal supporter of Kyiv, but owing to its lack of a foreign intelligence service, it’s a “spy paradise”. Russia has a specialist spy unit dedicated to evading Western sanctions there
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@kibcol1049@mstdn.social 2026-08-22 09:35
A top Russian spook, Maksim Filchenkov, has been living in Tokyo disguised as an executive of Aeroflot. He has developed relationships with mid-sized logistics companies and persuades them to supply illicit technology, flown to third countries such as Sri Lanka or Vietnam. Aeroflot, then charters one of its planes to collect the goods and get them to Moscow. It’s ruthlessly efficiency: Ukraine estimates that as much as 90% of Russian weapons, drones and missiles contain Japanese components.