The report says that after various European countries began exposing and expelling Russian spies, Russia's secret services apparently decided to relocate them to Switzerland, a neutral country outside the European Union.

Relations between Switzerland and Russia have deteriorated since the Russian military invasion of Ukraine.

Switzerland has joined most of the sanctions imposed by the European Union on Moscow.

Swiss President Ignacio Cassis then said that Switzerland continues to be a center of European diplomacy, but must show what values ​​it supports and what political boundaries it considers necessary.

Intelligence chief Christian Dusse, who worked as a political adviser to the Swiss embassy in Moscow in the 2000s and later as a diplomatic adviser to the Swiss president, also confirmed in an interview with Tages-Anzeiger: “Geneva remains a center of espionage.

We know that there are dozens of agents who hold positions in Russian diplomatic and consular missions. "

  • After the start of Russia's war against Ukraine, about 200 Russian diplomats were expelled from the European Union, the United States and Japan.