Top secret Russian military intelligence unit working to destabilise Europe: Report

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A top secret Russian unit has been running a coordinated campaign to destabilise Europe for years, the New York Times reported on Tuesday (Oct 8), ...

Western security officials told the US newspaper that what appeared to be isolated incidents were actually part of a"coordinated and ongoing campaign to destabilise Europe".

And while they only recently discovered the existence of the unit, it could have been operating for more than a decade.Unit 29155 sits within the Russian military intelligence agency widely known as the GRU, but its operations are so secret that its existence may not be known to other GRU operatives, according to assessments by Western intelligence services.

The intelligence agencies first identified the unit after the failed coup in Montenegro in 2016, when two operatives plotted to kill the country’s prime minister and seize the parliament building.The agencies began to connect the dots after the March 2018 poisoning of former Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia, in Britain.

They were found slumped on a bench in the southern English city of Salisbury in March last year after Novichok nerve agent was smeared on his front door. European countries and the United States expelled 100 Russian diplomats after the attack and London has

 

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