More than a hundred special services officers were handed out.
Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin carried out a” purge “in the FSB , said Bellingcat investigative journalist Hristo Grozev. According to him, 150 officers of the 5th service who dealt with the “Ukrainian question” were “purged”.
“I can say that many of them, if not arrested, certainly do not work in the FSB. So the purge was over. In a few days, I hope we will be able to publish something new about the fate of these people, “Grozev said.
He also confirmed that the ex-leader The 5th FSB Service, Colonel-General Sergei Beseda, was arrested.
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We will remind, on March 11 the journalist Andrey Soldatov told about repressions of the fifth service of FSB – it is engaged in foreign intelligence, Ukraine also is its area of responsibility. According to the journalist, the head of the structure Sergey Beseda and his deputy Bolukh from the Department of Operational Information are under house arrest. Roman Gavrilov. Some sources claim that this is due to “a leak of military information that led to the death of people,” and two others claim that the reason was “wasteful use of fuel.”
