Posted on 03/28/2022 3:58:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
PUTIN has suffered a serious security blunder after Ukraine published the names and numbers of more than 600 Kremlin spies.
The spies were thought to be "involved in the invasion" of Ukraine. The massive and embarrassing security blunder is the latest in Russia’s faltering invasion. In total, the details of 620 Russians working for the FSB spy agency “involved in criminal activities” were released by the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine. Many of the spies can be traced back to their work addresses, based at the Federal Security Service’s, FSB, Lubyanka headquarters in Moscow.
The mobile phone numbers and car licence plates of the names leaked have been revealed by the Ukrainians. Putin is a former KGB agent and retains close ties to the FSB.
The leak comes after Ukraine intercepted a call between two FSB agents.
The agents were discussing the death of Major General Vitaly Gerasimov.
The agent's phone calls were easily picked up by Ukrainian intelligence,
This was after Russia took out their own secure communications systems by destroying 3G towers in Ukraine.
Moscow has failed to recognise the resistance Russian forces would face in Ukraine.
The news comes as Ukraine has recaptured one of the first towns to fall to the Russian invaders.
Ukrainian soldiers recaptured the town of Trostianets with local reports stating that tanks, lorries and howitzers have been seized in the area. The town is 14 miles from the Russian border.
Moscow’s initial multi-front invasion plan has failed in the face of dogged resistance from Ukraine.
Russia has already refocused its efforts on the east, recognising that its forces were too spread out.
How many Russian spies do we have in our State Department?
gru is military fsb is not
I did mention them on at least one other thread.
Its like they’ve been ghosted somehow. All the military intel mentioned has always (in the articles I’ve read) been attributed to the FSB, which has always been internal and political intel like the FBI.
There's a reason for that. The GRU are a serious intelligence agency. They make it a point to be like a ghost. The KGB/FSB trades on a fearsome reputation, but that means a reputation. The GRU only EVER had a few defectors, and they were lower level than many of the KGB defectors. Stanislav Lunev, the last one in 1992, only revealed KGB secrets, as far as I know. The KGB opened their filed in the 1990s, and Western researchers, went through them. The GRU never did that.
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