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NYT spoke about the operations of Russian special services in different countries

US intelligence has concluded that Unit 29155 of the State Directorate of the Russian General Staff was involved in the “destabilization campaign” in Moldova, the poisoning of Bulgarian arms dealer Emelyan Gebrev, the attempted coup in Montenegro and the poisoning of the Skripal family in Salisbury, Britain. This became known from the publication’s material New York Post, and a brief retelling of the article was prepared by the publication with the BBC.

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The unit has been operating for at least 10 years, but Western intelligence agencies only recently became aware of its existence.

The publication claims that the authors managed to talk with representatives of the intelligence of four countries. And they allegedly paid attention to the unpredictability of the actions of this unit.

The unit is located at the headquarters of the 161 training center for special purposes in the east of Moscow. Unit officers, many of whom are veterans of military campaigns in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Ukraine, are actively moving around Europe.

This unit is so classified that, apparently, its existence is unknown to other GRU officers, the publication goes on to say.

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Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, to whom the publication sent a request for the division of 29155, redirected American journalists to the Russian Ministry of Defense. The publication was not answered there.

The publication describes a photograph taken, according to him, in 2017, in which the alleged unit commander, Major General Andrei Averyanov, in a gray suit and bow tie, is captured at the wedding of his daughter with Anatoly Chepiga, whom the British authorities suspect of involvement in the Skripals poisoning .

For the first time, Western intelligence agencies learned about the existence of the unit after the failed coup attempt in Montenegro in 2016, but close attention to it arose after the poisoning of Skripals.

A year before their poisoning, officers from Unit 29155 came to Britain, probably for reconnaissance. Among them was Alexander Mishkin, whom British authorities also suspect of involvement in the poisoning of the Skripals. With him were “Sergei Pavlov” and “Sergei Fedotov”, who supervised the operation.

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Western intelligence services established that in 2015 the same “Pavlov” and “Fedotov” were part of the group that organized the attempt to poison the Bulgarian arms businessman, owner of the Emco company Emilian Gebrev.

In 2012, the Russian Ministry of Defense wrote a reward to the 29155 unit for outstanding achievements in military service. At the same time, the 74455 unit, which was suspected of interfering in the US presidential election in the 2016 year, and the 99450 unit, which were allegedly involved in the annexation of Crimea in the 2014 year, were encouraged.

The interlocutor of the publication, whom the New York Times calls the former GRU officer, said that the 29155 unit allegedly specializes in sabotage missions, and the tasks are carried out both in groups and individually.

The commander of the Averyanov unit in 1988 graduated from a military school in Tashkent and probably subsequently participated in both Chechen campaigns, and in 2015 received the title of Hero of Russia. Two officers accused of poisoning the Skripals received the same rank.

Despite the elitism, the unit has a very limited budget. General Averyanov lives in a dilapidated Soviet-built house near the headquarters of his unit and owns a VAZ 21053 car, the newspaper said.

On business trips, unit officers are forced to save on housing, as was the case with Chepiga and Mishkin in the UK - where they stayed in a cheap hotel in a depressed area of ​​East London.

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Representatives of the European intelligence services are puzzled by the apparent sloppiness with which the unit’s operations are conducted. The violators survived the assassination attempt, as did the Bulgarian arms dealer Gebrev; the coup attempt in Montenegro made a lot of noise, but failed, and as a result, the country joined NATO.

It's hard to say whether the Kremlin is worried about this. Perhaps such actions are part of his strategy, the publication admits.

Russian journalist Sergei Kanev criticized the publication of the American publication. According to him, 29155 is a well-known military unit of the GRU, which is located in Moscow. “Formerly it was called the 161st Military Intelligence Training Center,” he wrote on Facebook. He also confirmed the commander's name listed in the NYT article.

“There is even a mobile phone number, they could call,” writes Kanev.

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