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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 Forces of the Russian Federation.
That year, following the Soviet–Polish War, it was elevated in status to become the Second (Intelligence) Directorate of the Red Army Staff, and was thereafter known as the Razvedupr. This probably resulted from its new primary peacetime responsibilities as the main source of foreign intelligence for the Soviet leadership.
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
The intelligence agencies of the Russian Federation, often unofficially referred to in Russian as Special services (Russian: Спецслужбы), include: . Federal Security Service (FSB), an agency responsible for counter-intelligence and other aspects of state security as well as intelligence-gathering in some countries, primarily those of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS ...
But Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate, GUR, claimed on social media on Monday morning — hours before the vessel sunk — that the ship was heading to Syria, and had already encountered ...
According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, the strike took place on Saturday at the Akhtubinsk base in southern Russia, some 589 kilometers (366 miles) from ...
A small service, it works collaboratively with its military intelligence counterpart, the Main Intelligence Directorate, better known as the GRU. As of 1997, the GRU reportedly deployed six times as many spies in foreign countries as the SVR. [3]
The HUR Buildings located on Rybalskyi Peninsula, Kyiv. The agency was established from the existing intelligence assets of the Kyiv, Odesa and Carpathian military districts [2] of the Soviet Armed Forces and its Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the independence of Ukraine.