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  1. www.bbc.co.uk › news › world-europe-56798001Why Russia's GRU military intelligence service is so feared - BBC

    Apr 19, 2021 · If the definition of a successful intelligence service is obscurity, the GRU is probably Russia's most effective spy agency. In communist times, the KGB became a byword in the West for Soviet ...

  2. crsreports.congress.gov › product › pdfRussian Military Intelligence: Background and Issues for Congress

    Introduction. Russia’s military intelligence agency is a large, expansive, and powerful organization responsible for the collection of foreign intelligence and the operation of Russia’s special forces units (voiska spetsialnogo naznacheniya, or spetsnaz). Since 2010, its official title has been the Main Directorate (Glavnoye upravleniye) of ...

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  4. www.nytimes.com › 2024/02/25 › worldThe Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight ...

    Feb 25, 2024 · At the time, the future head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, General Budanov, was a rising star in Unit 2245. He was known for daring operations behind enemy lines and had deep ties ...

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Foreign_IntelligenceForeign Intelligence Service (Russia) - Wikipedia

    The Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (Russian: Служба внешней разведки Российской Федерации, romanized: Sluzhba vneshney razvedki Rossiyskoy Federatsii, IPA: [ˈsluʐbə ˈvnʲɛʂnʲɪj rɐˈzvʲɛtkʲɪ]) or SVR RF (Russian: СВР РФ) is Russia's external intelligence agency, focusing mainly on civilian affairs.

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › GRU_(Russian_Federation)GRU (Russian Federation) - Wikipedia

    For the Soviet GRU, see GRU (Soviet Union). The Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, [note 1] formerly the Main Intelligence Directorate, [note 2] and still commonly known by its previous abbreviation GRU, [note 3] [1] is the foreign military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Armed ...

  7. www.bbc.com › news › world-europe-60573261Ukraine conflict: Who's in Putin's inner circle and running ...

    Jun 24, 2023 · He was credited with the military seizure of Crimea in 2014. He was also in charge of the GRU military intelligence agency, accused of two nerve agent poisonings - the deadly 2018 attack in ...

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  9. theconversation.com › ukraine-war-inside-theUkraine war: inside the complex web of Russia’s warring ...

    Apr 4, 2022 · Published: April 4, 2022 7:21am EDT. Russian intelligence chief Sergey Beseda and his deputy, Anatoly Bolyukh, were placed under house arrest on March 9. Beseda and Bolyukh oversaw the foreign ...