Russia unlikely to reduce aggressive spying, analysts warn

Expulsion of agents from the Netherlands will not deter Vladimir Putin, experts say

Moscow is unlikely to be deterred from carrying out aggressive foreign spying operations by the embarrassing unmasking of several of its agents in the Netherlands, analysts who study the Kremlin and Russian intelligence services have said.

The sloppy tradecraft of the GRU, the Russian military intelligence agency, should be cause for concern in the Kremlin, they said, but Vladimir Putin is still likely to take Thursday's public revelations as just the "collateral damage" of his political war with the west.