Explosive suspicion: Russia’s highest diplomat at the EU is said to be an agent of the Russian secret service. Kirill Logvinow also worked in Berlin.
Brussels/Moscow – Kirill Logvinov has been Russia’s permanent representative to the European Union since 2018. He is now accused of secretly working against European interests: Belgian authorities suspect the 48-year-old of being a spy for the Russian secret service. Specifically, he is supposed to work for the Russian foreign intelligence service SWR.
He reports on the suspicion Mirror and relies on joint research by several European media outlets. There is no information about specific operations or indications.
Russia’s highest representative in the EU under suspicion of espionage
With Logvinov, suspicion of espionage falls on the currently highest Russian representative within the EU: Logvinov has been acting as acting head of the Moscow representation in Brussels for around a year. Previously, the Russian ambassador in Brussels, Vladimir Chizhov, resigned from his post after 17 years. At the farewell speech in September 2022, Chizhov threw, according to a report by the news portal Euractiv the EU to “burn bridges” without paying attention to the Ukraine war to be considered as the cause.
Tschischov, who is now suspected of espionage, had already worked in Berlin before his assignment as a diplomat in Brussels: he is said to have been employed at the Russian embassy there from 2010 to 2014. Loud Mirror At that time he had not yet been noticed as a spy.
Logvinov Russian spy? Disputes over diplomats have been simmering for a long time
However, rumors and suspicions against the 48-year-old were already circulating in Brussels last year, it is said. At that time, a dispute broke out in EU circles about the Russian diplomat, reports Mirror and refers to an insider crisis.
At the time, the Belgian counterintelligence force vehemently advocated adding Logvinov as a suspected spy to the list of people to be deported, but without success. It is said that the Vice President of the EU Parliament, Martin Hojsík, was “shocked” about this when asked. He said he assumed that the EU Parliament would deal with the case.
Russian diplomat railed against West’s role in Ukraine war
In an interview with the Russian state news agency Tass in September 2022, Kirill Logvinov massively criticized the West and its role in the Ukraine war. The action violates the United Nations Charter, said Russia’s permanent representative to the EU. The West imposes “sanctions indiscriminately and without any respect for international law.” The war in Ukraine is part of an attempt by “a small group of Western states” to hold on to its monopoly in the world structure at all costs.
In the wake of the Ukraine war Germany, among other things, expelled hundreds of Russian diplomats, and Russia responded in return by expelling Western diplomats. Meanwhile, there is an explosive report that Russia’s army chief Gerasimov narrowly escaped an assassination attempt. (smu)
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