Alexander Martin reports:
The British government sanctioned 18 Russian military intelligence officers on Friday, alleging their units were responsible for cyber reconnaissance operations including those leading to hundreds of murders through the targeting of civilians in Ukraine.
Three units of the GRU have been sanctioned, alongside officers whom the British authorities said were responsible for hacking the personal device of Yulia Skripal — the daughter of GRU defector Sergei Skripal — five years before Russia’s failed attempt to murder the pair in Salisbury using the Novichok nerve agent.
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Of the 18 members of the GRU, more than a dozen have previously been publicly identified and indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice for their involvement with Unit 29155 and Unit 26165. Some of the names of the GRU officers appear to have not previously been publicly linked to Russian intelligence.
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