Kyiv
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Soon after midday on July 19, 2024, Hrystyna Garkavenko, the 19-year-old daughter of a priest, arrived at his church in Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine. Although she was devout, she wasn’t there to pray.
Familiar with the building thanks to her father’s role there, the young woman went up to the second floor and entered one of the rooms. There, in a window shielded by blinds, she set up a cellphone as a live-streaming camera, pointing it toward a road used by Ukrainian troops and vehicles traveling to and from the front lines further east. The feed was sent directly to Russian intelligence.
This was far from the only task Garkavenko carried out for Russia’s main…