Grozev told who in Russia was preparing an attack on Ukraine/Channel 24 collage
The Bellingcat Investigator provided many interesting details about the Russians' preparations for the war against Ukraine. It was carried out by many enemy intelligence officers who relied on their agents in our structures.
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The Russian occupiers very carefully planned the imminent capture of Ukraine. And although all their plans were covered with a copper basin, they are not going to give up and refuse to occupy our lands.
Who prepared the attack on Ukraine and the plan for an early occupation
According to the chief investigator of Bellingcat Christo Grozev, a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24 was planned by 120 officers of the 5th FSB service and 40 employees of the Gur. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin received a plan for a blitzkrieg and a strategy to quickly seize power in Ukraine.
The FSB officers had twenty-five to ten recruited agents in Ukraine, from whom they received information about political instability and public discontent. There are more than 1,000 people on the FSB list. They told the Russians that the Ukrainians were ready to see a puppet from Moscow in Kyiv.
Grozev said that it was the 5th FSB service that was responsible for the war against Ukraine. Many of the officers involved in planning the attack have diplomatic immunity, some worked undercover. As for the game workers, they did not have clearly defined tasks, so they did a little bit of everything. Now the Russians are drawing all their forces into the war with Ukraine.
For example, department 29155 is about 50 people who previously dealt mainly with sabotage and murders in Europe – now they are engaged only in Ukraine. Most likely, it was the same with other departments,” Grozev said.
Before the war, the Grushniks had 300 agents in Ukraine, some of whom refused to work with them after February 24. One of them, who was an employee of the SBU, they kidnapped and killed to intimidate others.
As for the Russian foreign intelligence service, there is no trust in it due to its failure to predict the world's reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The occupiers hoped for “concern”, but received a powerful sanctions response and an armed reinforcement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. likes to hear the truth about themselves and their failures, so they decided to ban publications and investigators who talk about it. They have already added Bellingcat and The Insider to the list of “undesirable” sources in Russia.
