Inside the shadowy world of anti-Putin sabotage from within Russia
Two Russian men working for Ukrainian intelligence have provided rare accounts of their sabotage operations inside Russia. The men claim to have assisted in drone attacks and provided surveillance on high-level military targets.
Why it matters
It provides insight into the clandestine internal resistance and intelligence operations occurring within Russia during the ongoing conflict with Ukraine.
Figure caption, Watch: Russian saboteur working for Ukraine shares reconnaissance videos
Two Russian men secretly working for Ukraine's intelligence services have given rare accounts of operations they claim to have been involved with, that have targeted military assets and personnel inside Russia.
One of the men, whom we are calling Ivan, claims to have played a role from Russia in Ukrainian drone attacks on strategic bombers and munitions factories on his home soil.
He features in a BBC World Service documentary about the shadowy world of Russian saboteurs.
The documentary, by independent Polish journalist Marcin Mamon, also features a man we are calling Foma, a Russian living in exile in Poland.
Foma runs a network of undercover volunteers in Russia, that surveils high-level officers that the GUR - Ukraine's military intelligence service - is considering targeting, he says. He stresses they are never involved in the attacks themselves.
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