Timchuk: the inauguration of the demonstrations in France was led by a new head of the Russian GRU

This was announced on his Facebook page by the coordinator of the group "People's Deputy, Dmytro Timchuk, commented on the appointment of Igor Kostyukov as head of the Russian GRU.

" The current appointment of Vice Admiral Igor Kostyukova to the post of new Chief of the General Staff Directorate of the Armed Forces (better known under the old acronym "GRU") Arena failure of his office in France, other promises have consequences for Russia. He is already associated worldwide as a terrorist country and aggressor, "said Timchuk.

According to him, Kostyukov" from the first steps in his new role has shown that he was in his place: being the first deputy head of the GRU, C & # 39; was he who was responsible for residence and active activities abroad. These should become the GRU's main area of ​​activity in the near future, turning the intelligence structure into a completely sabotant and political structure. "

However, as Timchuk noted," All this was happening before last Saturday – as long as two citizens equipped with French passports, closely related in their activities with the GRU and lit at a single event of the Russian military intelligence services, suddenly decided not to take the initiative of to enlarge the so-called flag. RDP in Paris, burning the whole office. "

" In the past, many Western politicians and officials, even without their counterintelligence data, had guessed Moscow's role in the participation and radicalization of such protests. But "the Parisian failure" was precisely the trigger that triggered the campaign to unravel the destabilization of France by the Kremlin and the thread through which the French began to solve a tangle of ruses Moscow ", declared the coordinator of "IO".

He expressed his confidence that, despite the fact that the Kremlin is now trying to justify, the French intelligence services that opened the investigation will prove the interference of Moscow and its special services in the internal affairs of France, "as was the case previously in Montenegro, the United States and Great Britain."

"goods Ish Kostyukov, not wanting himself , became the producer of the second part of the masterpiece "Petrov and Boshirov", which, according to the "fund-raising" of the international community, can easily take precedence over the first part – for which, in passan t, "fees" only to approach, "The coordinator of" IO. "

Timchuk had previously reported that in the streets of Paris on December 8, during a demonstration, two French propagandists from the "Russian world" in yellow vest, gathered with the symbols of the so-called DNR

According to Ukrinform, Dec. 10 it was learned that Russian Vice Admiral Igor Kostyukov became head of the Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia. The predecessor Kostyukova, head of the GRU, Colonel General Igor Korobov, died on November 22 at the age of 62, apparently "after a long illness". Igor Sergun, who has also just died, was going to Korobov's service, according to the official version, on January 3, 2016, "after a major heart attack" at the age of 59. According to other sources, Sergun died in Lebanon on 1 January 2016.

In 2018, the scandals surrounding the GRU increased after the commemoration of his staff during missions abroad. Yes, the scouts of Alexander Petrov (Mishkina) and Ruslan Boshirov (Anatoly Chepig) were accused of attempting to poison the former employee of Sergei Skrypala's administration in Salisbury, UK on 4 March. In addition, the GRU is accused of interfering in the election of the President of the United States. According to the US Department of Justice, hackers who split Hilary Clinton's electoral headquarters cooperated with the GRU. In addition, in the spring, the Dutch authorities expelled four Russians who, at the initiative of the GRU, had planned a cyber-attack against the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). .

In early November, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to refer the name of the GRU to the General Directorate of the Armed Forces Staff. 19659014] Photo: ELYXANDRO CEGARRA / AA