A new investigation by VSquare has revealed how Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, and its political proxies in Moscow are deepening their influence in Slovakia—using relationships with pro-Russian politicians, disinformation tactics, and backchannel diplomacy to erode Western unity from within the EU. At the center of the story is Leonid Slutsky, head of the Russian State Duma’s Foreign Affairs Committee and leader of the Kremlin-loyal Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR).