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Putin s killers - how are they involved in the Skripal poisoning?
According to news agency Reuters Sergei Skripal once worked in the GRU before he was turned by Britain’s MI6 spy service. He is believed to have betrayed dozens of GRU spies across Europe to his British handlers.
GRU officers indicted in Russian/Trump collusion
investigation
OIn July this year, US Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 GRU officers, accusing them of interfering in the 2016 US presidential election by hacking into the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and the Democratic Party.
There has been speculation the hacked emails were then transferred to Wikileaks who disseminated them.
The Metropolitan Police believe Russians Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov - thought to be behind the attempted assassination of ex-spy Sergei Skripal - are members of GRU.
This has been flatly denied by Moscow.
GRU linked with shooting down of MH17 over eastern Ukraine
An open-source investigative team called Bellingcat has linked the shooting down of MH17 in eastern Ukraine in 2014 with a GRU officer.
298 people were killed and Russia has refused to take responsibility.
In December 2017 an annual report by the Intelligence and Security Committee said:
· Russia conducts information warfare on a massive scale... An early example of this was a hugely intensive, multichannel propaganda effort to persuade the world that Russia bore no responsibility for the shooting down of [Malaysian Airlines flight] MH-17 (an outright falsehood: we know beyond any reasonable doubt that the Russian military supplied and subsequently recovered the missile launcher)".
Other destabilising efforts in Europe and the Middle East
The GRU has also been linked to an attempt to overthrow Montenegro's government in October 2016.
In August last year Sky News said they had obtained covert surveillance photos which showed Russia was behind the attempted assassination of the Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic.
The photos, taken in neighbouring Serbia by an unnamed European security service, show two Russians accused of plotting the coup - Eduard Shishmakov and Vladimir Popov. Both men are said to be members of the GRU, Russian military intelligence, reports Sky .
GRU officers are believed to be supplying military guidance to the Syrian army in the civil war. Russia is a supporter of leader Bashar al-Asad who has been accused of using chemical weapons against civilians.
They are also said to be active, alongside private-sector mercenarie in the conflict in eastern Ukraine very early on and attempted to sow unrest and help the rebels pushing to join Russia.
Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the Russian parliament’s international relations committee, described the claim that the GRU was behind the Skripal assassination attempt as “absolute nonsense”.
“Britain is continuing a large-scale anti-Russian provocation,” he said. “It is announced that they allegedly are GRU officers.
“This is an absolute nonsense.
“Any family names could have been made up and any photos could have been provided with the same result.
“Once again there is no real evidence of Russia's involvement, only ungrounded accusations.
“Just like there is no reply to Russia's multiple inquiries about providing information on the course of investigation.
“But that doesn't stop the UK's PM who demands more sanctions against Russia.”
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