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LONDON — The same Russian military intelligence service now accused of disrupting the 2016 presidential election in America may also be responsible for the nerve agent attack in Britain against a former Russian spy — an audacious poisoning that led to a geopolitical confrontation this spring between Moscow and the West.
British investigators believe the March 4 attack on the former spy , Sergei V. Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia, was most probably carried out by current or former agents of the service, known as the G.R.U., who were sent to his home in southern England, according to one British official, one American official and one former American official familiar with the inquiry, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence.
President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia are to hold a much-scrutinized meeting on Monday in Helsinki, Finland. For months, Mr. Trump has angrily belittled the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election . But on Friday, the Justice Department announced a bombshell indictment of 12 G.R.U. officers in the hacking of internal communications of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton presidential campaign.
The indictment by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, detailed a sophisticated operation, intended to disrupt America’s democratic process, carried out by a Russian military intelligence service few Americans know about. But analysts and government officials say the G.R.U., now known as the Main Directorate of the General Staff , serves as an undercover strike force for the Kremlin in conflicts around the world.
The agency has been linked to Russia’s hybrid war in Ukraine, as well as the annexation of Crimea in 2014. It has been involved in the seizing of Syrian cities on behalf of President Bashar al-Assad. In more peaceful regions, the G.R.U. is accused of creating political turmoil, mobilizing Slavic nationalists in Montenegro and funding protests to try to prevent Macedonia’s recent name change .
"The GRU, a Russian intelligence agency within the main intelligence directorate of the Russian military, "serves as an undercover strike force for the Kremlin in conflicts around the world," according to a report in the NYTs yesterday.
"The accusations of the service's meddling in the 2016 election were made in a bombshell Justice Department indictment as a part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the election."
GRU has also "been linked to Russia's war in Ukraine and their annexation of Crimea in 2014."
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The GRU have been linked to at a dozen murders in the UK and have blundered there way across the UK in 2018 having poisoned the Skripal's and a police officer before strangling Nikolai Glushkov in his London home.
They even dumped the novichok nerve agent in Wiltshire, leading to two more innocent people being poisoned and sadly the recent death of Dawn Sturgess.
The authorities are now involved in two new murder enquires relating to Russian Intelligence as well as the illegal use of a chemical warfare agent on UK Soil.
Russian Intelligence services haven't been this incompetent since the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.
The fact that Trump is being investigated for links to these goons, and is reluctant to criticise Putin is very worrying.
The GRU have been linked to at a dozen murders in the UK and have blundered there way across the UK in 2018 having poisoned the Skripal's and a police officer before strangling Nikolai Glushkov in his London home.
They even dumped the novichok nerve agent in Wiltshire, leading to two more innocent people being poisoned and sadly the recent death of Dawn Sturgess.
The authorities are now involved in two new murder enquires relating to Russian Intelligence as well as the illegal use of a chemical warfare agent on UK Soil.
Russian Intelligence services haven't been this incompetent since the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006.
The fact that Trump is being investigated for links to these goons, and is reluctant to criticise Putin is very worrying.
Worrying?
I should say!
Myself, I've moved on to "troubled" and just two steps away from "scared ****less."
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There is a russian looking guy standing on the corner with an umbrella...and its sunny! What should I do???
Just hope it's not ricin tipped as in the case of Georgi Markov, who was stabbed with a ricin umbrella tipped pellet on Waterloo Bridge in London, in 1978 and later died. Police believed he was murdered by an operative connected to the KGB and the Bulgarian secret police.
Walter White made reference to the killing in Breaking Bad.
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And yet, The President looks up to Putin. Of course, he also praises Kim and every other Dictator on the planet. Birds of a feather ?
Yep, that PIELE OF EXCRETMENT IS A WANNABE DICTATOR, so he can run America like he did his FAILED PRIVATELY-OWNED companies!
He could never be CEO of a publiclytraded company because he's too stupid and too much of a MENTAL-CASE.... the stock holders would throw him out on his fat tangerine face!
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Of course, he also praises Kim and every other Dictator on the planet. Birds of a feather ?
