Russian spies' kids learned their nationality on flight to Moscow, and had no idea who Putin was, Kremlin reveals

Russians returning home included two children

Shocking new details emerged on Friday in the biggest arrests since the Cold War, as the Kremlin admitted for the first time that some of the Russians arrested in the West were security agents - and the children of  Russian couples pretending to be are trained spies. . their real birth on the plane in Moscow.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the arrested couple released in Slovenia - Artem and Anna Dulcev - are secret intelligence agents, described as "illegals". Posing as Argentine expatriates, they used Ljubljana as a base since 2017 to give orders from Moscow to other secret agents, and were arrested in 2022.
on espionage charges. A change many people made. The children do not speak Russian and learn that their parents are Russian citizens while on the plane, Peskov said. 
They don't even know who President Vladimir Putin is, "if they ask him, I don't accept it," he added.
"This is how illegal people work, this is how they pursue their work," Peskov said.

In this pool photograph distributed by Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin welcomes Russian citizens released in a major prisoner swap with the West, at Moscow's Vnukovo airport on August 1, 2024.