I got played by Russian intelligence

Published May 18, 2018 2:59pm ET



I got played by Russian intelligence.

Yesterday, after dealing with the Twitter explosion that followed my piece on the Kerch Strait Bridge between Crimea and Ukraine (my follow-up piece here standing by my original piece), I received an email from a Ukr.net address purporting to be from a staff assistant to Ukraine’s foreign minister, Pavlo Klimkin. The email said that the minister wanted to thank me for my piece and support for Ukraine’s sovereignty in a short phone call.

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