Embassy in Romania Embassy ● Roster captured ● host list

Reuters reported on September 8th that “Romania’s SRI intelligence service prevented a sabotage operation coordinated by Russia on ​Romanian territory, it said on Tuesday, ‌as Ukraine’s European allies seek to counteract what they say are Moscow’s attempts to destabilise them. European countries blame ​Moscow for sabotage, cyberattacks and disinformation targeting ​supporters of Kyiv’s war effort. They include an ⁠August drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport that ratcheted ​up tensions between Berlin and Moscow. Russia has repeatedly ​denied any involvement in sabotage. The Russian embassy in Bucharest did not immediately respond to a request for ​comment on Tuesday. SRI said a Russian citizen ​based in Romania had been under surveillance since February as ‌part ⁠of an investigation involving international partners, adding that his actions repeated the pattern seen in previous cases. “The Russian citizen was instructed by ​an intermediary ​to make ⁠photo-video materials with targets of strategic military interest, including Ukrainian ANTONOV cargo ​aircraft during their presence on the ​national ⁠territory,” SRI said in a statement. “The investigation also revealed that the Russian Federation continues to ⁠use ​persons from vulnerable categories to ​carry out such illegal activities.”.”

On February 27th we published this video. As per its description, “on August 16th, 2010 the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) detained Romanian official Gabriel Grecu for espionage. This is the footage of the covert surveillance, his detainment and expulsion from Russia as Persona Non Grata (PNG) for espionage. He was operating under diplomatic cover. Gabriel Grecu was stationed in Russia as the First Secretary of the Political Department of the Romanian Embassy in Moscow. According to RT, Grecu was previously stationed in Romania’s Embassy to Armenia as the Chargé d’Affaires. In the footage he was using a supermarket’s locker as a deaddrop to collect classified Russian military intelligence, as well as to place payments, and communicate with his agent(s) for upcoming clandestine meeting locations. The FSB, reportedly, also detained a Russian national for the same espionage case, but no details were released about this individual. Two days later (August 18, 2010) the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared Russian diplomat Anatoly Akopov as PNG and expelled him, stating that he was an FSB intelligence officer operating under diplomatic cover as the First Secretary of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Bucharest, Romania.”

The Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Romania and Slovenia announced on Tuesday that they are expelling Russian diplomats as a protest and due to national security concerns. 10 Russian diplomats from the Russian Embassy in Bucharest, Romania were expelled and an unspecified number of Russian diplomats were expelled from the Russian Embassy in Ljubljana, Slovenia.