The Russian Federation has sent an FSB officer to Abu Dhabi to negotiate with Ukraine and the United States, whose Ukrainian unit officials are linked to the 2019 assassination attempt on Kirill Budanov. Budanov himself also takes part in the negotiations, writes "Agency".
We are talking about Dmytro Miniev, head of the counterintelligence operations department of the FSB. He joined the group of experts of the Russian Federation. This is one of the four participants who reached such negotiations for the first time.
According to Ukrainian officials who spoke to the WSJ, Miniev personally ordered two car bombings in 2017. Then GUR employees Maksym Shapoval and SBU Oleksandr Haraberyush were killed. The same officials also linked his department with the failed attempt to kill Budanov, when he served in the GUR, but was not yet its head.
The department, headed by Miniev, also arrested Americans in Russia to exchange them for the Russian killer Vadim Krasikov. Among those arrested is WSJ journalist Evan Hershkovich. In August 2024, Miniev accompanied him and other released prisoners.
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