Sentence examples for main directorate from inspiring English sources
These would be troops of the 12th Main Directorate.
As Mr. Putin has sought to reassert Russia's power, its largest military intelligence unit, the Main Directorate — also known as the G.R.U.
A force of border troops, which are subordinated to the Main Directorate of Border Defense, have motorized their mounted units and have acquired helicopters for aerial reconnaissance.
Intelligence and counterintelligence are the responsibility of the Main Directorate for Intelligence, an organization that over the years has changed its name and structure several times.
Gen. Igor Valynkin, commander of the 12th Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Russian military sector in charge of all nuclear weapons outside the Navy, said recently that twice in the past year terrorist groups were caught casing Russian weapons-storage facilities.
The agency, now called the Main Directorate but often referred to by its former abbreviation, the G.R.U., proved agile, brazen and not terribly discreet — the same pattern it would show two years later in the nerve-agent poisoning in England of its former officer, the defector Sergei V. Skripal.
The two deputy chiefs of staff dismissed in early July were the heads of two of the General Staff's main directorates and they were among Mr Serdyukov's most outspoken detractors.
April Hackers believed to be linked to Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) also gain access to the DNC network.
American intelligence agencies accused the F.S.B. and another Russian agency, the military's Main Intelligence Directorate, or G.R.U., of hacking the Democratic National Committee and other electoral targets.
Ahead of Russia's military intervention in Ukraine in 2014, infected computers were searched for information about top-secret files from the country's main intelligence directorate, the S.B.U.
Barack Obama's announcement that Washington will avenge alleged Russian efforts to interfere in the US election with new sanctions and the expulsion of 35 diplomats has focused attention once again on Russia's main intelligence directorate, the GRU.
