German prosecutors charged a German-Ukrainian marketing executive and lobbying group chairwoman in Berlin, with spying for Russia. ๐ฉ๐ช ๐บ๐ฆ
Her actual job is what made this dangerous. She wasn't planted as a spy from the start, she was a legitimate lobbyist with real access to military and political circles, which is exactly the kind of person an intelligence service wants: someone who never has to fake her way into a room because she's already invited. That's a harder threat to screen for than a foreign agent posing as a diplomat, because every credential she used to get close to defense officials was real.
Germany has spent three years treating its Ukrainian community mainly as refugees needing protection, while this case shows Russia sees that same community as a potential access point.