GRU became widely known in Russia, and outside narrow confines of the Western intelligence community, during perestroika, due partly to the writings of "Viktor Suvorov" (Vladimir Rezun), a GRU officer who defected to Great Britain in 1978 and wrote about his

2 days ago · The Dossier Center: "The GRU is setting an ultra urgent task for its agents—to collect and provide data on opinion leaders in Europe who disagree with the Russian government. It is likely that ...

2 days ago · France's foreign ministry explicitly accused Russia's GRU military intelligence agency on Tuesday of mounting cyber attacks on a dozen entities including ministries, defence firms and think tanks ...

1 day ago · The accusations, levelled at GRU unit APT28, which officials said was based in Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia, are not the first by a Western power, but it is the first time Paris has blamed the ...

2 days ago · Vladimir Putin pulls up to the roof of the GRU headquarters in Moscow Credit: Getty - Contributor. The former Yukos oil baron who spent 10 years in Russian prisons said: “Putin's spies are building a hit list of journalists, politicians, and public figures across Europe.”. He claimed GRU military intelligence officers tasked agents across Europe to find targets' home …

2 days ago · PARIS — French authorities on Tuesday accused Russia's most high-profile hacking group of orchestrating cyberattacks on President Emmanuel Macron's 2017 election campaign. This is the first time France has publicly accused Moscow of being behind the affair known as "Macron leaks," which resulted in the disclosure of thousands of documents ...

2 days ago · Today, the French foreign ministry blamed the APT28 hacking group linked to Russia's military intelligence service (GRU) for targeting or breaching a dozen French entities over the last four years.

Russian: Главное разведывательное управление, romanized: 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.

4 days ago · The Russian military intelligence agency (GRU) oversaw the recruitment of prisoners into assault units known as "Storm Z." It also funded the units and collected of information about casualties, ...

Sep 7, 2024 · In this article, we talk about the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU), its role in supporting Russian military intelligence...