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Citat:Intelligence officials have identified a new Russian unit, the SSD, responsible for sabotage, assassinations and espionage across Europe and beyond.
SSD was created in 2023 in response to Western support for Ukraine. It is based in Moscow's GRU headquarters. It absorbed Unit 29155, linked to the 2018 Skripal poisoning, and has taken over some FSB functions.
Operations attributed to the SSD include:
Attempted assassinations, sabotage, recruiting spies from Ukraine, Serbia, and developing countries. Infiltration of Western companies and universities.
Key figures:
Colonel-General Andrei Averyanov, a veteran of Russia's wars in Chechnya, is wanted by Czech authorities for an ammunition depot explosion in 2014.
His deputy, Lieutenant-General Ivan Kasianenko, reportedly coordinated the Skripal poisoning and oversees operations in Europe and Wagner's African operations post-Prigozhin.
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