Amid the intense global media coverage of the military conflict in Ukraine, another battle is being waged largely in the shadows: Russia's spy network across Europe is being decimated. In a statement on April 11, French authorities announced that they had uncovered an unspecified "clandestine operation" being carried out by "six Russian agents under diplomatic cover" who officials said would be removed from the country. The statement came shortly after a series of coordinated moves the week before in response to alleged Russian war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine, when multiple European countries and the European Union itself said they would expel nearly 270 Russian diplomats they implicitly or explicitly accused of being spies. Their announcements came after similar statements from a host of other European countries that had already flagged more than 150 Russian diplomats for expulsion since the invasion of Ukraine in February.