“The second thing is what we have seen are massive escalations of Russian intelligence activity. They are at least at the same level now in terms of scope and aggressiveness of operations as they were at the height of the Cold War. When you’re launching that kind of a scale of operation, frankly you’re going to have in effect casualties of the secret war. You’re going to have people unmasked; you’re going to have people sent home. Simply because of the scale of resources, the number of spies that are operating. And some of them are going to be brilliant, and some of them are going to be mediocre and that is just the nature of this kind of operation.”

Source: ‘The West and Russia are already at war’. An interview with NYU’s Mark Galeotti — Meduza. News, reports, interviews, videos from Russia