{"id":46619,"date":"2026-05-04T18:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=46619"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:24:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:24:41","slug":"austria-has-expelled-3-more-russian-diplomats-over-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/austria-has-expelled-3-more-russian-diplomats-over-espionage\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria has expelled 3 more russian diplomats over espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Austrian government has declared three russian diplomats persona non grata. The reason was the discovery of a veritable &#8220;forest of antennas&#8221; on the roofs of russian diplomatic buildings in Vienna, which were used for radio technical reconnaissance and espionage.<\/p>\n<p>The use of special equipment on embassy roofs allowed the kremlin to intercept data from international organizations whose headquarters are located in Vienna (OSCE, IAEA, UN structures).<\/p>\n<p>The total number of russian diplomats expelled from Austria for espionage since 2020 has already reached 14 people.<\/p>\n<p>The network of russian diplomatic institutions in Europe has been transformed into a system of stationary radio technical reconnaissance posts, which is part of russia&#8217;s hybrid aggression against democratic countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Austrian government has declared three russian diplomats persona non grata. The reason was the discovery of a veritable &#8220;forest of antennas&#8221; on the roofs of russian diplomatic buildings in Vienna, which were used for radio technical reconnaissance and espionage. The use of special equipment on embassy roofs allowed the kremlin to intercept data from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}