Ukrainian intelligence's special operation provokes Russian services to arrest Russian Deputy Defence Minister

Timur Ivanov, Deputy Head of the Russian Defence Ministry, is in a Russian detention centre and is being persecuted by the Putin regime as a result of active measures taken by the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU).

Source: Ukrainska Pravda sources at Defence Intelligence of Ukraine

Details: In March 2024, DIU conducted a special operation that resulted in access to a significant amount of confidential information and official documents of Russian Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov.

The Ukrainska Pravda source stressed that despite Russia’s reaction and attempts to secure the relevant servers, the cyberattack was successful and achieved its goal.

Shortly after Ukraine’s intelligence gained access to the official documents of Shoigu's deputy, Russian investigative authorities opened an investigation against him on corruption charges. As a result, Ivanov was sent to a pre-trial detention centre on suspicion of taking a bribe.

The Ukrainska Pravda source noted that the Kremlin was well aware of Timur Ivanov's bribery, but this proved to be not enough to bring him to justice. At the same time, it was the media coverage of the information leak and its reaching Ukraine’s intelligence (and not the bribery of Shoigu's deputy) that was the real reason for his prosecution and arrest.

Quote: "Everyone knew that he was a key corrupt official in the Russian Ministry of Defence, and journalistic investigations with a large number of irrefutable confirmations, in particular in the context of Russian crimes in Mariupol, made this information public. However, the ‘sanctions’ against Ivanov were imposed only after this large leak of sensitive data occurred."

Background:

• On the evening of 23 April, Russian Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov was detained on suspicion of taking a bribe. Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin had been informed of Ivanov's detention, and that Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu had been warned in advance.

• Vazhnye Istorii, a Russian media outlet, stated that the real reason for Ivanov’s arrest was high treason.

• In April 2023, Ukrainska Pravda spotted Ivanov's wife Svetlana at the Courchevel ski resort in the French Alps (the relevant video investigation is available with English subtitles).

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