Head of Russian foreign military intelligence service visits Armenia

Head of Russian foreign military intelligence service visits Armenia –

On July 25 the RA Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan received the delegation headed by the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Colonel General Igor Sergun, who is in Yerevan on a working visit.

Political-military issues of regional and international importance, issues relating to the situation on Armenian-Azerbaijani border, as well as issues of developing bilateral cooperation within the framework of maintaining security of both countries in the current geopolitical situation were discussed during the meeting.

Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (abbreviated GRU) is the foreign military intelligence main directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian.

The Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the Russian army has the overall responsibility for intelligence collection by the military. This includes GRU agents stationed in embassies and military intelligence and reconnaissance units during wartime. The GRU is Russia’s premier military intelligence organization that serves the General Staff, By some estimates the GRU is larger than the intelligence organizations of all the United States military services combined.