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Another UK agent later approached Smith, pretending to be Irina, an operative in Russia’s GRU military intelligence service.
Source: https://www.ghanamma.com/wn/2023/02/16/uk-embassy-guard-paid-for-treachery-by-moscow-says-judge/
GRU methods are considered more aggressive and crude than those of the SVR.
Source: http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htintel/articles/20230102.aspx
GRU, the military, and the rest of Russia are all subordinate to the FSB/SVR.
Source: http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htintel/articles/20230102.aspx
In reality, he was a Russian military officer named Sergey Cherkasov who had been sent overseas more than a decade earlier by Russia’s GRU spy agency, its main military intelligence service, according to officials and court records…
I would suspect very much that it was an FSB or GRU operation.
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/prigozhin-plane-wagner-putin-crash-b2398565.html
Utkin, a little-known former GRU officer, is thought to be the founder and early military leader of the Wagner group.