{"id":48818,"date":"2026-07-14T08:57:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=48818"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:49:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:49:26","slug":"japan-becomes-new-target-for-russian-spy-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/japan-becomes-new-target-for-russian-spy-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Becomes New Target for russian Spy Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the mass expulsion of russian spies from Western countries, the kremlin has turned Japan into one of the key hubs for acquiring technology for the russian military-industrial complex.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources within current and former intelligence agencies of five Western countries, a secret unit 20 operates in Tokyo, which is involved in the search, procurement, and illegal export of dual-use and military technologies to russia. This activity is coordinated by officer maxim filchenkov of Unit 20, who operates under the cover of an aeroflot employee.<\/p>\n<p>kremlin continues to use intelligence networks, front companies, and logistical schemes to circumvent sanctions and support the production of weapons used in the war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the Center reported that the Italian government expelled two russian &#8220;diplomats&#8221; from its country due to espionage activities.<br \/>\n<b><br \/>\n<\/b>Only coordinated actions by international partners to strengthen sanctions, export controls, and counterintelligence measures can deprive russia of access to critical technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the mass expulsion of russian spies from Western countries, the kremlin has turned Japan into one of the key hubs for acquiring technology for the russian military-industrial complex. According to sources within current and former intelligence agencies of five Western countries, a secret unit 20 operates in Tokyo, which is involved in the search,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48819,"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-48818","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\/48818","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=48818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}