Russia paid for Moldovan Orthodox priests to make Moscow pilgrimages and gave them debit cards loaded with hundreds of dollars on their return home. In exchange, priests created Telegram channels to influence Moldova's elections reut.rs/46FHZhR

Russia has resorted to using untrained spies after its operatives were expelled from Europe in response to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The case against a Canadian teenager now jailed in Poland reveals how Moscow conducts the operations. www.reuters.com/investigates...

Russia is undertaking a major factory expansion in remote Siberia to ramp up production of a powerful explosive used in artillery shells and other munitions in the war in Ukraine, a Reuters review of publicly available state documents and satellite imagery has found. www.reuters.com/investigatio...