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In February, a good team of the FSB and Russian intelligence on a “walk” in Kiev

(BRUSSELS2) According to the commission of inquiry and our Ukrainian colleagues, the Russians dispatched to Ukraine several teams of high-level experts from the various Russian intelligence services (FSB, GRU, SVR). A team arrived discreetly at Boryspil airport in Kiev on Aeroflot flight 1818 (coming from Moscow - Sheremetyevo) on February 20, the day the demonstrators were killed by snipers. The reception was limited: no staff from the Russian Embassy to welcome the "tourists" but on the contrary one of their Ukrainian counterparts, Volodymyr Valentynovych Bik, the head of the Ukrainian SBU, responsible for order in Maidan Square.

The Russian delegation was headed by General Sergei Orestovoch Beseda, born in 1954, head of the 5th office responsible for international relations. (5th service has Ukraine under its control). He was accompanied by 6 other FSB specialists:

  • Colonel Vyatcheslav Kozlov, born in 1952, who had already come with the FSB task force between January 26 and 29 and was based in the SBU's anti-terrorist unit, called Alfa, based in Koncha Zaspa , not far from the Russian Embassy;
  • Anatoly Bolyukh born in 1956, member of the FSB, a specialist in Transnistria;
  • Aleksandr Pavlov, born in 1984;
  • Dmitry Revzin, born in 1974;
  • Oleg Tkachuk, born in 1964;
  • Vladislav Surkov, born in 1964, assistant to President Vladimir Putin.

On site were already there at least 10 officers of the Russian border guards (*), 3 high-ranking intelligence services as well as 5 others from the directorates and 2 high-ranking officers of the FSB, whose names are given by the daily newspaper Voice of Ukraine

FSB border guard service
1. Usanov, Vladimir Alekseyevich, Colonel
2. Groshev, Konstantin Georgiyevich
3.Malov, Sergei Nikolayevich
4. Mirolov, Yevgeniy Vladimirovich
5. Chelishev, Andrey Yevgenyevich
6. Antipin, Sergei Nikolayevich
7. Belan, Vitaliy Aleksdandrovich
8. Kalitka, Aleksandr Anatolyevich
9. Chervyakov, Ilya Viktorovich
10. Nikolayev, Aleksandr Ivanovich

Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR ex KGB First Directorate)
1. Ionov, Mikhail Arsenyevich, Lt.-General
2. Golubev, Andrey Sergeyevich, Colonel
3. Minayev, Sergei Yuryevich, Lt.-Colonel

Directorate General of Intelligence of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (GRU)
1. Naumov, Aleksandr Anatolyevich, Colonel
2. Samul, Aleksandr Vladimirovich, Lt.-Colonel
3. Kolyuchkin, Kirill Sergeyevich, Lt.-Colonel
4. Belashev, Eduard Kirillovich, 2nd Captain
5. Popov, Pavel Vladimirovich, Lt.-Colonel

The Federal Security Service of Russia:
1. Sviridov, Gennadiy Aleksandrovich, Maj.-Gen.
2. Chashchin, Viktor Vladimirovich, Colonel

(Nicolas Gros-Verheyde)

(*) Let us remember that the border guard unit has long been considered as one of the branches of the political police.

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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