A family of Russian sleeper agents flown to Moscow in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War were so deep undercover that the children found out they were Russians only after the flight took off, according to the Kremlin.
A Russia n sleeper agent couple and their children have been flown to Moscow from Slovenia as part of the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War.
"And you probably saw that when the children came down the plane's steps that they don't speak Russian and that Putin greeted them in Spanish. He said, 'Buenas noches.'"The Dulstev couple were dubbed "illegals" — spies who had trained for years in Russia before giving up all contact with their homeland.The Dultsevs had lived in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana since 2017, as the Argentinian couple Maria Rosa Mayer Munos and her husband Ludwig Gisch.
Meanwhile, the Slovenian government held talks with Russia's president and his United States counterpart Joe Biden about including the Dultsevs in one of the most complex East-West prisoner swaps in history. "The children asked their parents yesterday who it was that was meeting them . They didn't even know who Putin was," Mr Peskov said.Slovenian Security and Intelligence Agency documents describe Russian "illegals" as spies who first train for years in their homeland, then leave Russia and must give up contact with their family members so nothing connects them to Russia.
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