Russia’s Federal Security Service appears to be trying to infiltrate Russia’s defense and industrial base in a way reminiscent of the involvement of the Soviet military’s dreaded KGB secret service, the Institute for the Study of War said in an assessment Friday morning.
Andriy Rudyk, spokesman for the Ukrainian Center for the Study of Military Weapons and Equipment of the General Staff of Ukraine, noted on Thursday that Ukrainian experts found FSB markings on many Russian weapons components that Ukrainian forces destroyed or captured on the battlefield.
Rudyk noted that these markings are not only on T-90M tank-type equipment, but also on the microcircuits of the weapon, and suggested that this means that the FSB was inspecting the equipment.
Rudyk concluded that this means that the FSB does not trust the Russian military leadership and conducts inspections of the equipment that Kremlin forces use on the battlefield.
FSB markings on Russian weapons equipment and components, if confirmed, would have broader implications for the relationship between the FSB, the Russian defense industrial base, and the Russian military apparatus in general.
Either FSB Director Oleksandr Bortnikov instructed his officers to conduct these investigations at the behest of Russian President Vladimir Putin, or Bortnikov issued this directive independently of Putin.
In any case, the FSB appears to be directly interfering with the inner workings of Russia’s defense industrial base, likely involving itself in the procurement and inspection processes of equipment.
The dreaded KGB secret service, the predecessor of the FSB, infiltrated the Red Army and the Soviet defense industry in a similar fashion.
Russian President Vladimir Putin joined the KGB in the 1970s after graduating from law school. He was on a mission in the former GDR until the collapse of the USSR in the early 1990s, when he returned to his country and was appointed adviser to the mayor of St. Petersburg.
The KGB was officially abolished in 1991, and its functions were taken over by the FSB.
Putin led the FSB to a meteoric rise in politics, becoming prime minister in 1999 and president a year later.
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