He said this after the premiere of the spy detective Shadow: Take Gordey.
“They always had a lot of work, full of it,” Peskov said, answering the question whether the counterintelligence officers had more tasks with the start of the SVO.
The Kremlin spokesman recalled that intelligence and counterintelligence are “one of the most ancient professions, just like journalists.”
“But we were never left alone, and Western intelligence services have always worked quite aggressively and continue to work against us.
It's not a secret," TASS quoted him as saying.