Sergei Beseda, the head of the 5th Service of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), a unit responsible for gathering intelligence on Ukraine on the eve of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, ...

Ukraine’s Armed Forces struck the base of Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) analysts in Melitopol over the weekend; Russian military are trying to hide their units after the Ukrainian strikes.

The fact that a relatively small Russian firm, Mirelix – owned by Igor and Maria Troianovskii from St Petersburg – holds commercial contracts with Russia’s federal security agency, the FSB, would not ...

A new joint investigation between Bellingcat and several media outlets has revealed evidence they say shows that the recent poisoning of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny was carried out by ...

Key point: Training for SOBR units is mostly what you’d expect from an elite police unit. If asked to name a counterterrorism unit in Russia, most people would probably think of the FSB’s elite “Alpha ...

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Russia's main security and spy agency, the FSB, began expanding its Ukraine unit in 2019, per The Washington Post. The unit grew more than five times in size by last summer, from 30 offers to about ...

If asked to name a counterterrorism unit in Russia, most people would probably think of the FSB’s elite “Alpha” unit. Alpha participated in the 1993 constitutional crisis, the Nord-Ost theatre siege ...

For years, a small group of American officials watched with mounting concern as a clandestine unit of Russia’s Federal Security Service covertly tracked high-profile Americans in the country, broke ...