The Russian aggression has affected the number of people in charge of espionage for a foreign state in more than ten years, because experts ‘proxy war’ warn on Great -Britain

The Russian aggression has affected the number of people in charge of espionage for a foreign state in more than ten years, can reveal the post on Sunday.

The number of those in charge of espionage has been shaken in the past year.

Experts warn Russia And other rogue states launch a ‘proxy war’ on Great Britain that will only intensify.

British Intelligence Services have launched a performance of this, of which the military leaders have said, led to the increase in persecutions.

A fear has also been organized crime Bendes in Great Britain are recruited and paid by Rogue States to work on their behalf, which increases the risk.

Figures from the Crown Prosecution Service show that only three people from 2014 to 2023 were charged for espionage crimes, which led to two convictions – but last year a total of 14 people were accused of comparable crimes.

Spionage crimes can include a foreign intelligence service, providing adverse information to a foreign state and conspiracy to help an enemy nation by collecting information that would endanger the safety of the UK.

Of the 14 people accused of spies last year, at least seven have now been convicted.

Experts warn that Russia and other rogue states are launching a ‘proxy war’ on Great Britain that will only intensify

British Intelligence Services have launched a performance of this, of which the military leaders have said, led to the increase in persecutions. Shown: gchq

Orlin Roussev (photo), who lived in a guesthouse in Great Yarmouth, would have the network of spies ‘aware’

Last month at the end of a trial period of three months, six Bulgarian nationals were convicted of espionage for Russia in one of the largest foreign intelligence activities in the UK.

Vanya Gaberova, 30, Katrin Ivanova, 33, and Tihomir Ivananchev, 39, all of whom lived in London, were found guilty of spying journalists, a former politician and an American military base in Germany between 2020 and 2023.

Lord Richard Dannat, former head of the British army, said that the number had increased due to aggression from Russia and hostile states.

He said that the ‘uncertainty’ all over the world meant that they launched more espionage activities and the security services of Great -Britain became better to stop it and increase its consciousness.

Lord Dannat said: ‘This shows that Russia is becoming increasingly aggressive. The world is currently a very uncertain place.

‘Russia fights against his conflict in Ukraine and launches all kinds of other hybrid attacks.

“It yeasts the conflict shortage of war.”

Vanya Gaberova (photo), accompanied spy, Biser Dzhambazov, 43, on surveillance missions, but claims that she thought the trips were vacation and that he convinced her that he was working for Interpol for Interpol

Jury members were told that Gaberova, who ran a beautician called Pretty Woman in West -Londen, was ‘naive’ and that her judgment was ‘clouded by love’. Displayed: Biser Dzhambazov

Lord Dannat said that British intelligence services were very aware of the threat.

He added: ‘Our security services are aware of this and do it very well to stop it, as these figures confirm.

‘The threat and activity have risen and so our security services have increased their play.

‘Russia itself is under a lot of pressure. Nowhere else can it afford a physical conflict because it does not have the manpower.

‘It creates this kind of attack through espionage. The figures show that there is more threat and activity and we are also doing well to stop. ‘

Tan Dhesi MP, chairman of the parliamentary defense committee, said: ‘With opponents who act with increasing aggression in Ukraine, the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific region, the focus should focus on the defense and security of our nation.

‘It is therefore concerning a peak in the number of people who have been charged with spy offenders in the past year. Although I address our security services for their essential work when protecting the UK and its interests, it is clear that more needs to be done to strengthen our counter-intelligence options. ‘

Senior National Coordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing, Deputy Assistant -Commissioner Vicki Evans, said:

‘In the last number of years we have seen a strong increase in threats that are projected in the UK by hostile actors.

Lord Dannat said: ‘Russia itself is under a lot of pressure. Nowhere else can it afford a physical conflict because it does not have the manpower. So it creates these kinds of attacks through espionage. The figures show that there is more threat and activity and we are also doing well to stop. ‘

‘By this we mean that we see the regimes of foreign nations, causing people who simply made the UK their home.

‘It can also mean that foreign states want to infiltrate or sabotage those organizations and companies and companies, or to infiltrate or sabotage their own profit, or to disrupt it with democratic, financial or academic institutions.

‘That is why Counter Terrorism Policing worked closely with the British government and our intelligence partners to ensure that the National Security Act provided the powers it needed to deter, detect and disrupt this type of activities.

“We expected that, as soon as the law was live, we would be able to increase our operational activity and that is the reality since the implementation of legislation.”

Col Richard Kemp, former head of terrorism in Afghanistan, said that the figures were ‘worrying’.

He said: ‘It shows the nature of the threat we are against here in Britain. These people want to harm our country and our democracy and our way of life. ‘

The spy ring was run from a guesthouse in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, by Orlin Roussev, 47, who pleaded guilty of spy down guys before being confronted with a process.

Gaberova, together with her ex-boyfriend Tihomir Ivananchev, 39, and Lab assistant Katrin Ivanova, 33, all refuse to work for Russian intelligence services between August 2020 and February 2023. Pictured: Katrin Ivanova

Shown (from left to right): Katrin Ivanova, Vanya Gaberova, Orlin Roussev, Ivan Stoyanov and Biser Dzhambazov appear via Videolink to Westminster Magistrates’ Court, London

Fellow Spions Bizer Dzhambazov, 43, and Ivan Stoyanov, 33, also guilty of supplications before their trials.

After the base of the Spy Ring in a former hotel with 33 rooms in Great Yarmouth, the police discovered a range of refined espionage equipment, including cameras hidden in a fake rock and glasses.

The group had spied on an American military base in Germany because they believed that Ukrainian troops were being trained on the spot.

The Spy Ring was also planning to organize a protest outside the Kazakhstan -Ambassade in London and to follow a former Senior Kazakh politician, who lived in the UK, as part of an extensive plan to help Russia to obtain his southern neighbor in Central -Asia.

The conviction of the group comes less than six months after a former soldier of the British army was found guilty of spying on fellow soldiers in an attempt to help Iran.

On November 28, 2024 in Woolwich Crown Court, former British army Daniel Khalife, 23, was found guilty of collecting classified information from Iranian agents.

From 2019 to 2021, Khalife had collected and passed on to classified documents, military communication and information about soldiers to the Iranian authorities.

The former army network engineer led to a rural manhunt in September 2023, when he broke out of prison while he was awaiting the trial about the spy downicies.

Soldier Daniel Khalife told a court that he escaped from prison to show British intelligence serivences ‘what a foolish idea was that it had someone of my skills’ behind bars

Jury members were shown CCTV of the dramatic moment that the British soldier Daniel Khalife escaped from prison while holding himself to the bottom of the truck

He escaped from the Woodsworth prison during a duty shift in the kitchen, allowing him to bump under a truck for food delivery.

During the trial last year, Khalife’s lawyer claimed that the espionage to help Iran had been more ‘Scooby-Doo’ than ‘007’.

But in February of this year, Khalife was sentenced to 12 years in prison for his espionage, with another two years and three months to be served successively for his escape in prison.

Earlier espionage convictions In the past decade are, among other things, a guard who sent Russia secret documents from the British embassy in Berlin and a defense employee who sent very sensitive information about a British missile system to a variety of contacts.

Former guard David Ballantyne Smith was imprisoned for 13 years on his betrayal in Berlin in February 2023.

Simon Finch, who had worked at Defense Companies Bae Systems and Qinetiq, was sentenced to eight years in prison after a hearing in March 2021.