Since 2014, Moscow has paid billions of dollars to create an agent network of pro-Russian politicians.. Only in the end, these " This was stated by Bellingcat journalist Hristo Grozev.

He announced next week a joint investigation with The Insider on the creation and financing of the FSB politicians in our country.. It was these "

“Here we are talking about billions of dollars, not rubles. Was spent from year 14 to today. It was 150-160 highly paid FSB officers. Each of them had an unlimited budget to recruit Ukrainians of any level. They recruited on paper and then it turned out that. Well, yes, they flew to meet them in Thailand, Maldives, Cyprus. This money they spent on meetings. They were given cash,” he said..

The result was consistent with the preparation. The agency just didn't work..

“And here even these Ukrainian agents who took the money threw them. They just threw it,"

Grozev clarified that President Zelensky's decree to ban pro-Russian parties was very timely. Because there were a large number of Kremlin agents among them.

“We see representatives of these parties, many of them, not all parties, among the assets of this group of 150 FSB officers.. So obviously these are completely inauthentic parties, they were supervised by the FSB,” he added..

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Recall that about 40 Russian diplomats are planned to be expelled from Poland because of their activities that do not correspond to the status of a diplomat, which means espionage in the language of diplomacy..