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Christo Grozev

@christogrozev

Mar 13

Denis Alimov, FSB Alfa veteran and senior operative of Russia's new and "most secretive" assassination unit, walked into El Dorado Airport in Bogotá on Feb 24 looking like a tourist heading to Cartagena. He walked out in handcuffs.
He was undone by Google Translate.
🧵New @TheInsider investigation with @DerSpiegel — thread below.

The story begins in December 2022. Russia is not winning the war in Ukraine, and needs to ramp up its hybrid warfare on the West. Averyanov's Unit 29155, its previous solution, has been burned by our investigations; its operatives' biometrics were in every customs database.

The solution is an air-gapped, secret unit. Military Unit 75127, also known as Center 795.
The new unit is designed to be untraceable. Hidden inside the Kalashnikov Concern. Reporting directly to Gerasimov. A shadow army in a corporate suit. With PowerPoint presentations.

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Christo Grozev

@christogrozev

Feb 8

FSB announced the arrests of two Russian citizens who allegedly organized the attempt on Gen. Alexeev. One is a 66-year old Ukrainian-born man who was detained in Dubai, but the other one - V. Vasin, 67 - works for an FSB company manufacturing surveillance tools. Plot twist.

At least through Aug 2025, Viktor Vasin was employed as "chief expert" at NTC Atlas, launched by FSB and now part of military-industrial behemoth Rostec.

An archived CV from 2014 shows he graduated from Russia's military command communications academy, describes himself as "master of military affairs" and "senior officer - chief of staff of a regiment" before switching to commercial jobs in the 90s.

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Christo Grozev

@christogrozev

Nov 25, 2025

https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1992269286866379117

and now, @business's incredible scoop: "[Kirill] Dmitriev suggested sharing [with Witkoff] a paper informally and said he was confident *that even if the US didn’t completely take Russia’s version they would at least do something very close to it.*".

https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1992269286866379117

"LET THEM DO, LIKE, THEIR OWN"

"We will do everything neatly"

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Christo Grozev

@christogrozev

Oct 4, 2025

I've been reporting to @Meta fake profiles that impersonate me on Facebook. Meta refuses to remove the impersonators, for some inscrutable reason considering impersonation of an investigative journalist to *not* be a violation or their terms. This is irresponsible and dangerous.

. Not only did @Meta not remove the impersonators, but are *actively* pushing them to people. This is a fake account created in 2021. Facebook is suggesting to someone to add this fake person as their friend. Just imagine the risks from this irresponsible behavior.

@Meta To my real account, I constantly get unsolicited tips from whistleblowers who trust me. Imagine what would happen if/when a whistleblower contacts a fake account created by a bad state actor. @Meta is not simply helping spread disinformation, it's actively endangering lives.

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Christo Grozev

@christogrozev

Sep 30, 2025

Pavel Durov, Telegram's founder, claims he was poisoned in 2018 (symptoms he describes are indeed are consistent with nerve agents/organoposphates). He chose "not to tell my colleagues so I wouldn't scare them"

I believe him this happened. Sadly, he didn't volunteer information on where this happened (I wish he had, so we could triangulate the usual suspects - in 2018 he was a MAJOR thorn in the side of Russian authorities). But thanks to leaked databases we can have some guesses.

Based on leaked travel data, he spent most of the time in 2018 in Dubai, interspersed with stays in Switzerland, France and the UK. Interestingly (likely coincidentally), he left the UK for Dubai a day after the Skripal poisoners left London for Moscow.

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Christo Grozev

@christogrozev

Jul 23, 2025

In our new investigation into Russia's use of children for their military drone program, crucial evidence came from @tashurkevich's undercover phone calls. Here are some of the most striking confessions she extracted.