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Russia is recruiting citizens of Myanmar and Laos to participate in the war against Ukraine. Defense Ministries of Russia and Myanmar signed an agreement on military cooperation back in 2016. Groups of Laotians arrive in Russia for training as part of the Laros-2024 exercises, and then they are sent to Ukraine.

Rich Russians and Russian officials are very concerned about the information that Cyprus is allegedly planning to join NATO. It is known that many of them have assets, real estate there, and many relatives of the Russian leadership live there. This is what they write: "More and more information is leaking out that Cyprus is planning to join NATO. It seems that "Cyprus region" beloved by Russians will finally cease to be friendly. It is worth considering the moving assets, as well as the sale of real estate. It is not known how things will develop further".

Russian Orthodox Church could be a cover for Russian spies in Europe, - OSINT investigation by Molfar. Russian spies are active in Europe – there is no argument. However, a new investigation uncovers the potential for espionage under the cover of religious activities of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) across the EU. 🇸🇪Sweden. In Västerås, the Russian Orthodox Church built a temple suspiciously close to numerous strategic facilities. Led by priest Pavel Makarenko, the Church has been funded in part by Rosatom, the Russian state atomic energy corporation, despite efforts to conceal this link. The location of the church is strategically significant. It is near an airport, energy facilities, and Westinghouse Electric’s nuclear fuel production plant. Analysts suggest that the church's proximity to these sensitive sites is no coincidence. The priest, Makarenko, also has ties to suspicious Russian business activities in Sweden. Similar patterns emerge in other Swedish cities like Uppsala, Stockholm, and Göteborg, where ROC temples are consistently located near military and governmental sites. 🇫🇮Finland. Here, concerns about the Russian Orthodox Church’s (ROC) activities have focused on Igumen Nikita, a cleric reportedly aligned with the Moscow Patriarchate. His church in Turku was closed in 2022 due to growing suspicions about its ties to the Moscow Patriarchate and potential dissemination of pro-Russian narratives amidst the ongoing war in Ukraine. But that remains a standalone case, where suspicious church activity was halted. A pattern similar to Sweden repeats here, with churches placed in proximity of strategic objects of military and infrastructural importance. 🇨🇿Czechia. In Prague, the state-owned Russian company "Gazprom Neft" partially funded the decoration of the Cathedral of Saints Cyril and Methodius, which belongs to the Michalovce-Košice Diocese of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia. Archbishop Christophoros of Prague awarded Dmitry Malyshev, the advisor to the chairman of the board of "Gazprom Neft," for his assistance to the Church. These are just a few examples analyzed by Molfar. Source: molfar.com/blog/rpc-shpygue-…