New images have been published of the Russian GRU assassination team working in Europe. A video from a case in Bulgaria shows a man connected to the 2015 poisoning of an arms dealer. The suspects in the Bulgarian poisoning are believed to be part of the same Russian unit that […]

US and European intelligence agencies discovered Russian military intelligence members working in the French Alps, according to an NBC News report, citing a report by French newspaper Le Monde. Up to 15 members of the GRU, the Kremlin’s military intelligence agency, had lived in the French Alps, where they established […]

Details are gradually emerging about a former US intelligence asset inside the Russian government, who was hastily extracted in 2017. A man identified by Russian media as a former intelligence official, who matches the description of the extracted spy, appears to have been living openly in Virginia using his own […]

The daylight killing of a Chechen militant in Berlin looks increasingly like the work of Russia, though the Kremlin denies it. Investigators recently published evidence they say proves the suspect had a fake ID which only the Russian state could provide. A longtime Israeli intelligence operative, speaking anonymously, told Insider […]

Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a former militant active against Russia, was shot dead in Berlin last week. Investigators in the country believe that Russia may have been involved. The killing bears hallmarks pointing toward a state-backed attack. Russia is still an international pariah after it was blamed for the attempted assassination in […]

The head of MI6 said Russia broke one of the primary rules of espionage by trying to assassinate double agent Sergei Skripal after he moved to Britain as part of a spy swap. Alex Younger said the UK trusted the pardon Russia gave to Skripal, but after the attack on […]

Igor Korobov, the head of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency, died from an unspecified illness on Wednesday. He reportedly fell ill shortly after President Vladimir Putin summoned him to an office and reprimanded him for a series of embarrassing blunders by Russian GRU spies abroad. GRU agents are accused of […]

Russian intelligence agents intimidated a tech specialist into hacking Britain’s visa issuance system to secure tourist visas before Sergei Skripal’s poisoning this March, according to a new report. Agents co-opted Vadim Mitrofanov in 2016 under duress and threatened his family with imprisonment and deportation, the report says. While this story […]

Russia’s military leaders are reportedly unhappy with a series of blunders that its intelligence service suffered through in the past two weeks. Over the past two weeks, Western investigators said that the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence service, was behind the nerve agent poisoning in England and an attempted hack into […]

The second man believed to be behind a nerve agent attack in Salisbury, England, has been identified as a Russian military doctor. Investigative news outlet Bellingcat has tracked down what it says are the true identities of the two suspects, who claim they were only tourists. The attack, which targeted […]

The Netherlands accused four Russian agents of trying to launch a cyberattack into the world’s chemical weapons watchdog. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was investigating the nerve agent poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in England, and a chemical attack in Syria. The four men […]

British authorities have identified a third agent involved in the attack against former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, The Telegraph reported. The UK earlier this month accused two Russian intelligence agents of the attempted assassination. The third agent was also part of Russia’s intelligence service, and this person visited England to […]

The UK has accused two Russian men, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, of poisoning a former Russian spy in England earlier this year. Russian President Vladimir Putin described the two men as civilians. Petrov and Boshirov also claimed they visited the UK as tourists. The investigative-journalism site Bellingcat on Wednesday […]

Pyotr Verzilov, a prominent anti-Kremlin activist, collapsed in Moscow last week and was rendered temporarily unable to see, speak, or walk. Doctors in Berlin said it was “highly probable” that he was given a poison that damaged his nervous system. Verzilov’s partner thinks he was poisoned in “an attempt to […]

Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov have been accused by the UK of attempting to murder a former spy with a rare nerve agent in Salisbury, England. They defended themselves in a bizarre interview with Russian state TV on Thursday. The told RT that they were only in Salisbury for tourism, […]

The UK accused two men of attempting to assassinate a former Russian agent in England with military-grade nerve agent. Vladimir Putin said he knows who and where they are, but that there was “nothing criminal” about their actions. He added that he hoped the two men would “turn up themselves […]

The UK on Wednesday accused two Russian men of attempting to kill a former Russian spy in England with nerve agent earlier this year. A British couple was also exposed to the poison when they unwittingly picked up a fake perfume bottle containing the poison. British police released photos of […]