New Delhi: Sending ripples through international intelligence circles, Russia claimed to have uncovered a secret network linked to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) allegedly trying to smuggle sensitive air defence technology out of Moscow. The revelation about the suspected espionage plot marks what investigators believe could be ISI’s first known operation of its kind inside Russian territory.

According to sources familiar with the investigation, security agencies carried out a major counter-espionage operation in St. Petersburg, where a Russian national was arrested while allegedly attempting to transfer confidential documents related to military helicopter development and air defence systems.

These documents, the sources said, contained details about the Mi8AMTShV and MI8

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