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The Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formerly the Main Intelligence Directorate, and still commonly known by its previous abbreviation GRU, is the foreign military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
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- 7 May 1992; 31 years ago
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- Grizodubovoy Street 3, Moscow
The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine conducts its activity in the military, political, technical, economic, signals, informational and environmental spheres. The major missions of the directorate are: [citation needed]
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- Sapiens dominabitur astris (eng. The wise will rule the stars)
- September 7, 1992; 31 years ago
- Government of Ukraine
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Main Intelligence Directorate may refer to: GRU (Russian Federation), the foreign military intelligence agency of the Russian Armed Forces. GRU (Soviet Union), the foreign military intelligence agency of the Soviet Army.
Main Intelligence Directorate (Russian: Главное разведывательное управление, tr. Glavnoye razvedyvatel'noye upravleniye, IPA: [ˈglavnəjə rɐzˈvʲɛdɨvətʲɪlʲnəjə ʊprɐˈvlʲenʲɪjə] ), abbreviated GRU (Russian: ГРУ, IPA: [ɡɨ̞‿rɨ̞‿ˈu], [gru] ), was the foreign military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces until 1991.
- Classified
- Classified
- 7 May 1992
- 5 November 1918, as Registration Agency; GRU since 1942
Kyrylo Oleksiiovych Budanov ( Ukrainian: Кирило Олексійович Буданов; born 4 January 1986) is a Ukrainian military leader who has served as the chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine since August 2020. [1]
- Marianna Budanova
- Russo-Ukrainian War
"GRU" is the English version of the Russian acronym ГРУ, which means Main Intelligence Directorate . The GRU is Russia's largest foreign intelligence agency. [2] . In 1997 it had six times as many agents in foreign countries as the SVR (The SVR is the successor to the KGB 's foreign operations directorate).
Jun 29, 2020 · The GRU – formally known as Main Directorate of the General Staff – has long been accused by the West of orchestrating brazen and high-profile attacks, including the hacking of Democratic Party...