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Russian spies surveilled Ukrainian troops at US airbase, trial hears

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Russian spy ring operating out the UK tried to use sophisticated surveillance equipment to compromise and track the mobile phones of Ukrainian soldiers being trained at a US airbase in Germany .

The operation was only stopped after the suspects were arrested, a court has heard.

Katrin Ivanova , 33 , Vanya Gaberova , 30 , and Tihomir Ivanchev , 39 , deny conspiring to spy.

Ms Ivanova also denies possessing multiple false identify documents.

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