“Within the last days earlier than the invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s safety service started sending cryptic directions to informants in Kyiv. Pack up and get out of the capital, the Kremlin collaborators had been instructed, however depart behind the keys to your properties,” the Washington Publish stories.
“The instructions got here from senior officers in a unit of Russia’s Federal Safety Service (FSB) with a prosaic title — the Division of Operational Info — however an ominous task: make sure the decapitation of the Ukrainian authorities and oversee the set up of a pro-Russian regime.”
“The messages had been a measure of the boldness in that audacious plan. So sure had been FSB operatives that they might quickly management the levers of energy in Kyiv, in response to Ukrainian and Western safety officers, that they spent the waning days earlier than the conflict arranging protected homes or lodging in informants’ flats and different areas for the deliberate inflow of personnel.”
