GRU Takes Over Putin’s SpyWar Against Ukraine

The Kremlin handover of the intelligence reins to the black bat Spetsnaz crew heralds a longer and nastier war

There’s no more unsavory bunch of spies on earth than Russian military intelligence, what’s formally termed the Main Directorate of the General Staff, GRU [1] for short. It’s the only component of Kremlin’s vast espionage empire that remains mostly unchanged, even the name, from Soviet times; indeed, GRU can claim direct lineage back to 1918 when the ne…