Italy has ordered two Russian military attachés to leave the country within three days after they were found to be engaged in espionage, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani announced. The two individuals, identified as Ivan Petrovich Gorbachev and Mikhail Vasilyevich Astakhov, were linked to a spy ring uncovered by Rome's public prosecutor. The expulsion follows the arrest this week of two former Italian intelligence agents suspected of passing classified information to a Russian embassy officer — part of a wider investigation involving six suspects accused of offences ranging from political and military espionage to revealing state secrets.