Italy expelled two Russian military attachés stationed at the embassy in Rome accused of running espionage operations against the country, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani announced on Thursday.
This week, officials from Italy’s Carabinieni gendarmerie arrested two former Italian intelligence officers after an extensive investigation found that they were conducting espionage operations and leaking classified data to Moscow through officials stationed at the Russian embassy in Rome.
In a social media post, Foreign Minister Tajani identified Russian military attachés Ivan Petrovich Gorbachev and Mikhail Vasilyevich Astakhov as the two officials…
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