Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces
The Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, commonly known as GRU, is Russia's military intelligence agency. Subordinated to the Russian General Staff, it operates alongside the SVR and FSB as one of the country's principal intelligence services.
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European intelligence: Russia intensifies assassination plots against defense executives supplying Ukraine
Five European intelligence services have warned executives of European defense companies that Russia is escalating efforts to assassinate them, the Financial Times reported. Targets include heads of prime contractors and small drone-component firms. Russia's GRU is said to be adapting its methods by cooperating with organized crime groups and cross-border agent networks, and Germany's domestic intelligence chief told lawmakers Moscow is planning acts of violence against individuals using state or state-controlled actors.