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Bang on the Ukraine War! Apparently, the Kremlin dictator has lost confidence in his old secret service friends.
Vladimir Putin (69) deauthorizes your FSB (formerly KGB) domestic secret service!
After the bloody war of aggression in the neighboring country did not go according to plan and Russian troops were being pushed back on many fronts, Putin decided to call in the GRU military intelligence service.
Exciting: Originally, the GRU would have been responsible for the “special military operation”, as it is called in Russia. But the Kremlin dictator apparently trusted his former colleagues at the FSB more.
► According to the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), the new senior official in Ukraine is now Vladimir Alexeyev, the first deputy head of the GRU.
Vladimir Alexeyev, first deputy head of the GRU Photo: Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine
He is accused by the UK and European Union of overseeing the 2018 Salisbury poisoning of Sergei Skripal. Alexeyev is a veteran officer and was sanctioned by the US for direct cyber interference in the 2016 US election.
He is said to have been implicated in several of Putin’s heaviest attacks on the West over the past decade.
E: He has already led the GRU mission in Syria. In the past, Alexeyev served directly under Alexander Dvornikov – the general who is currently in charge of leading the Russian offensive in Ukraine.
Therefore, both generals have experience in bloody attacks on civilians.
Alexeyev is used to cruel operations: he started his career in the special forces, the spetsnaz, known for their extraordinary brutality. At the GRU, he was at the head of the 14th Directorate, which manages Spetsnaz, the paramilitary arm of the intelligence agency. In 2011 he assumed his current role.
► According to the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Alexeyev is responsible for “organizing the preparation of initial data for air and air strikes on Ukrainian territory, including civilian objects, and legalizing the Russian presence in the occupied territories by organizing the so-called referendums (establishing the “People’s Republic of Kherson”)”.
Prior to the decision to deploy the GRU, Ukraine was the responsibility of the FSB’s 5th service, which provided Kremlin despot Putin with pre-invasion information about Ukraine.
Problem: The catastrophic start of the war, marked by the preemptive release of top-secret plans by Western intelligence agencies that had not yet materialized, cast a dark shadow over the department. Voices were also raised in Russia that the FSB had completely overlooked the Kremlin tyrant.
► Putin cracked down: FSB general Sergei Beseda, head of the 5th service, was arrested in early March and held in the notorious Lefortovo prison. According to observers, the arrest of the top Ukrainian spy chief shows that there has been a major failure of the secret services in Ukraine.
What followed was confusion, including within the secret services. Why: Putin, the Kremlin dictator, got Beseda out of prison in the meantime. He reinstalled it as if nothing had happened. A sign of unrest in Putin’s power apparatus?
Furthermore, there is no evidence that Putin still trusts the FSB or, in particular, Beseda’s service towards Ukraine, as Alexeyev’s appointment makes clear.
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