The Russian Federation sent an FSB officer who tried to kill Budanov to negotiations in Abu Dhabi, -. WSJ.
The Russian delegation in negotiations with Ukraine and the USA in Abu Dhabi included four people who did not appear in the composition of the negotiating groups during the previous meetings.
Among them was one of the heads of the FSB, Dmytro Miniev, whose department was behind the attempt to kill the former head of the National Security Service, and currently the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov.
Miniev heads the Department for Counterintelligence Operations (DKRO) in the FSB. This structure ran a campaign in Russia to arrest American citizens in order to free the FSB killer Vadim Krasikov.
The department is responsible for the 2017 car bombings that killed GUR and SBU employees Maksym Shapoval and Oleksandr Khrabyush, and was also behind the failed attempt to assassinate Budanov in 2019. At the time of the trial, Budanov did not yet head the GUR.
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