GRU

American  

Or G.R.U.

1. (in the Soviet Union) the Chief Intelligence Directorate of the Soviet General Staff, a military intelligence organization founded in 1920 and functioning as a complement to the KGB.

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GRU British  

abbreviation

1. (formerly) the Soviet military intelligence service; the military counterpart of the KGB

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Etymology

Origin of GRU

< Russian, for Glávnoe razvédyvatel'noe upravlénie

Example Sentences

Nor was the GRU - the Russian military intelligence agency of which Skripal had been a member.

From BBC

The report says there is no doubt that a unit of the GRU was responsible for the poisoning.

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The operatives involved were named within months and the wider GRU unit has had many of its operations and some of the fake identities it uses exposed, not least by the investigative site Bellingcat.

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Following the report's release, Russia's main military intelligence agency, the GRU, was sanctioned in its entirety by the UK government.

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A known member of the GRU, the Soviet military intelligence agency.

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