Dmytro Tymchuk, the coordinator of the Ukrainian-based Information Resistance OSINT community, has said head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of Russia (formerly known as the GRU), Igor Kostyukov, who was appointed to the post on December 10, had to prove himself by fulfilling a task to destabilize the situation around the protests in France.
UNIAN: New chief of Russian GRU engaged in inciting riots in France
Fron L: Russian President Vladimir Putin, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and first deputy head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, vice admiral Igor Kostyukov attend the Military Intelligence Day during the event to mark the 100th anniversary from the establishment of the Russian Armed Forces' General Staff at the Russian Army Theatre in Moscow on November 2, 2018.
