Ukraine’s spy agency published a mammoth online database of about 620 members of Russia’s Federal Security Service, the successor to the KGB, reports DailyMail.
The database
The Intelligence arm of Ukraine’s defence ministry listed people It said were FSB employees registered at the agency’s HQ In Moscow.
It contained names, addresses, mobile phone numbers and even car registrations of those It alleged were Kremlin spies.
The FSB Is responsible for domestic security in Russia, akin to Britain’s MI5.
‘Employees of the FSB involved In the criminal activities of the aggressor state In Europe,’ the post said without further details on the alleged crimes.
It provided the names under a photo of the Moscow headquarters of the FSB.
Comment from Russia?
Russia did not immediately comment on the list of names.
The FSB is thought to be taking much of the blame in the Kremlin over Putin’s struggling war effort.
Earlier this month, two of its most senior spies were arrested and placed under house arrest as punishment for the stalled invasion.
Disinformation campaign
Sergey Beseda and Anatoly Bolukh were both said to have angered Putin by presenting him with an incomplete, or incompetent, picture of the likely resistance as he plotted to go over the border.
Beseda, head of the FSB’s foreign intelligence unit, apparently assured Putin that Ukraine’s citizens would welcome a Russian invasion. Bolukh, as his deputy, was head of Russia’s vast disinformation campaign which has struggled in the face of social media.
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Source: DailyMail
