Romania thwarts Russia-linked sabotage plot; suspect monitored since February

Romania's intelligence service announced it disrupted a sabotage operation on its soil, coordinated from Russia, centered on Ivan Kutsenko, a Russian citizen from Novosibirsk. He was allegedly photographing and videotaping military facilities, including Ukrainian ones, and had been under surveillance since February. The incident underscores heightened Russian covert activity in NATO's eastern flank amid the Ukraine war.