Financial Times: Four years into the war in Ukraine, the roofs of Russia’s sprawling diplomatic premises in the Austrian capital have quietly revived one of their most important cold war functions: as the Kremlin’s largest covert signals intelligence platform in the west.
“It’s one of our main concerns about Russian activity here. We know they have been targeting Nato government and military communications with what they’ve got,” said one senior European diplomat based in Vienna. “Vienna has really taken on a lot of importance for them . . . it’s their hub in Europe.”…