A few days before the start of the full-scale invasion, a group of 50 Russian GRU (General Intelligence Directorate of Russia) was transferred to Ukraine to help assassinate the country's political leadership. In addition, their task was to carry out sabotage and sabotage in the rear of the Ukrainian troops.
This was revealed in an interview with the online media "Liga" the Bulgarian investigative journalist Hristo Grozev.
The Russians were subsequently captured, and most were killed by the Ukrainian SBU and GUR services in the first days of the war, adds Grozev.
According to him, these were people who had been followed by him for years and had access to their mail and thus found out about the tasks set for them.
"We monitored their e-mails and saw how their moods changed as hostilities progressed, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Their tone grows sharper and their fears that their mission will not end well increase. "Some of them even sent their wives a request to exchange the rubles for Western currency, because they predicted a strong fall in the Russian currency," the Bulgarian journalist added.
He points out that they have identified another group consisting of private military mercenaries as a clone of the then existing VK "Wagner". They thought that the war would be very short and this would give them a good opportunity to earn serious money.
It was they who were transferred to Kiev in order to kill the Ukrainian military and police leadership in the first days of the war.