Book claims Putin forming secret ‘battle groups’ in western Europe: report
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
12.04.2016 13:25
German author Boris Reitschuster claims in a new book that Russian President Vladimir Putin is forming covert, highly trained “battle groups” of sleeper agents in western countries, according to press reports.
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Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper reported that in a book entitled “Putin's Hidden War” and due to be published on Friday, Reitschuster claims to have seen reports by a Western European intelligence service that charts the spread of such covert groups.
Reitschuster claims group members receive training in Russian martial arts, sabotage and using explosives, and hold exercises in the Czech Republic and the Swiss mountains, the Daily Mail added.
Reitschuster is a German journalist and author on Russia who lives in Moscow. (pk)