Stewart Home (@stewarthome.bsky.social)

The surveillance logs are an absurdist document: operatives of Russia's secretive assassination unit conducting a murder-for-hire plot via a consumer translation tool, every instruction & status report preserved in timestamped entries on American servers. theins.ru/en/inv/290235

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Lost in translation: How Russia’s new elite hit squad was compromised by an idiotic lapse in tradecraft Center 795, which emerged after the start of Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine and comprises elite units from the GRU and FSB, was established as a top-secret and fully autonomous entity designed to carry out the most critical operations, ranging from military missions in Ukraine to political assassinations and abductions abroad. The Insider has managed to identify all of the center’s key leaders and sponsors, determine its location, and pinpoint its main areas of activity. One of its officers has already been arrested in Colombia on charges of organizing the kidnapping of multiple regime opponents. He was caught because he handled an agent using Google Translate. https://theins.ru/en/inv/290235