Government does not comment on allegations of Russian espionage, visit by Russian intelligence officials

After returning to Moscow, the two Russian spies arrested in Slovenia said in an interview with Russian state television Rossija-1 TV that a member of the Russian intelligence service visited them while they were detained in Ljubljana. The Slovenian government told STA that it would not comment on their statements.

Russian spies Artyom exist Anna DursevaThey were handed over by Slovenia on Thursday as part of a prisoner swap between the West and Russia, and they revealed details in interviews about how the exchange took place.

The Government Communications Office declined to comment on the allegations.

Durchev revealed that a member of the Russian intelligence service, the SVR, visited him in a Slovenian prison and conveyed greetings from the Russian president. Vladimir Putin And the message that Russia is working to save them. In prison, “we don’t doubt for a moment that the country remembers us, that Russia and the army are behind us,” Dulcev said.

In response to questions from the STA about allegations of prison visits by members of Russian intelligence, the Government Communications Office said they would not comment on this.

As reported today by the online portal N1, Durtsev revealed that the Russian embassy employee who visited the spy was actually a member of the Russian secret service SVR, to which two Russian spies from Slovenia also belonged. According to the portal, N1 sources unofficially confirmed that this was the same person.

The kids realized they were not Argentinian on the plane

In an interview with Russian TV, the two Russian spies also revealed that while they were in a Slovenian prison, Argentina wanted to take their children away and assign them to foster families. As Anna Durseva said, they felt that the Slovenian intelligence services did everything possible to keep the children in Slovenia so that they could be together. She added that they felt pressure from other countries against Slovenia.

They also talked about how their children, who did not know their origins until the last minute, accepted the news that they were Russian. It was not until they were on the plane to Russia that they revealed to their children that they were not Argentine, but Russian. In prison, the guards allowed them to communicate with the children, and the children could help them with their homework.