FSB officer Dmitry Miniev takes part in the negotiations in Abu Dhabi. The WSJ reported that his department was responsible for "the greatest wave of repression" since Stalin.
The Russian delegation to the negotiations in Abu Dhabi included the head of the counterintelligence operations department of the FSB, Dmitry Miniev, Russian agencies reported.
Miniev became the hero of the first text of Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich, who wrote after the exchange and return to the United States.
The article states that Miniev's department "played a huge, previously unreported role in plunging Russia into the greatest wave of repression since the death of Joseph Stalin."
It is claimed that this FSB department was involved in the purge of the Ministry of Defense after the failed invasion of Ukraine.
According to the WSJ, the department also waged a campaign to detain American citizens in Russia to secure the release of FSB killer Vadim Krasikov from Germany.
According to Ukrainian officials, the department is responsible for the explosions in 2017, in which GUR and SBU officers Maxim Shapoval and Alexander Kharabryush died, as well as the attempted murder of Kirill Budanov in 2019, the agency recalls.