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⭐ Core Definition: GRU (G.U.)

The Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formerly the Main Intelligence Directorate, and still commonly known by its previous abbreviation GRU, is the foreign military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation tasked with advancing military intelligence through collecting and analyzing intelligence from around the world and conducting clandestine and covert operations. The GRU controls the military intelligence service and maintains its own special forces units.

Unlike Russia's other security and intelligence agencies – such as the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), the Federal Security Service (FSB), and the Federal Protective Service (FSO) – whose heads report directly to the president of Russia (see Intelligence agencies of Russia), the director of the GRU is subordinate to the Russian military command, reporting to the Minister of Defence and the Chief of the General Staff.

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GRU (G.U.) in the context of Special Operations Forces (Russia)

The Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, commonly known as the Special Operations Forces (abbr. SOF; Russian: Силы специальных операций; ССО, romanized: Sily spetsial’nykh operatsiy; SSO), are strategic-level special forces under the Special Operations Forces Command (Russian: Командование сил специальных операций, KCCO, romanized: Komandovaniye sil spetsial'nykh operatsiy, abbr. KSSO or KSO) of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. They are also a structural branch and an independent unit of the Armed Forces.

The first units of what would become the Special Operations Forces were transferred from the General Staff Directorate (GRU) in 2009 as part of the continuing 2008 Russian military reform. The Special Operations Forces Command, established in 2012, was announced in March 2013 by the Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov. According to Gerasimov, Russian authorities designed the SOF as a strategic-level asset: élite special-operations-force units of the KSSO whose primary missions would be foreign interventions including counter-proliferation, foreign internal defense operations and undertaking the most complex special operations and clandestine missions for protecting the interests of the Russian Federation.

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GRU (G.U.) in the context of "Spetsnaz GRU"

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GRU (G.U.) in the context of Special Operations Forces (Russia)