An American man who helped the Kremlin spy on Ukraine’s military has been personally rewarded with a Russian passport by Vladimir Putin. Daniel Martindale arrived in Ukraine shortly before Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022 and pretended to be a missionary,

The U.S. has “realized that Russia does not really want peace, so in order to have peace, we need to support Ukraine and we need to put the pressure on Russia,” Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, told reporters in Brussels on Tuesday.