Probe in Italy: was Russian pandemic aid team on spying mission?

An Italian Parliament committee that deals with intelligence matters summoned former premier Giuseppe Conte over growing concerns that a Russian military and medical team sent to help Italy early in the Covid-19 pandemic was really on a spying mission.Conte was serving as Italy’s populist leader when the pandemic began in 2020 and overwhelmed the country’s health system, which was then desperate for masks, respirators and sanitising material.Proceedings of the Parliamentary Committee for the…

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