According to “Agentstvo”, 19 employees of the Russian embassy and trade mission in Serbia have ties to the Ministry of Defense and the GRU. Six of them work in the military attaché office: attaché Gennady Mozhaev, military and air attaché Dmitry Mokrov, and assistants Alexander Andreev, Alexander Krasiy, Yevgeny Polyakov, and Alexander Tikhonov.
According to the Rupep.org database, advisers Valery Golovanov, Vitaly Zelinsky, and Sergei Zubkov are also linked to the GRU. Golovanov and Zelinsky were registered at houses where GRU employees live, and Zubkov used the address of the GRU headquarters on Khoroshevskoye Highway, 76b.
“Agentstvo” links adviser 43-year-old Alexandra Simonova, 42-year-old first secretary Alexey Ivanenko, and 43-year-old attaché Andrey Grinev to the SVR and the FSB. Simonova received income in military unit 2320, which belongs to the FSB, Ivanenko — in unit 71330 and, according to leaks, also in unit 33949, which belongs to the SVR.
In April 2022, Ivanenko was expelled from Croatia together with other diplomats suspected of espionage, and in 2017 Grinev worked at the Institute of Cryptography, Communications, and Informatics of the FSB Academy. Among the other employees in the database is 58-year-old adviser Sergei Isaev, who is registered in Moscow in a ведомственный house of the SVR on Akademika Anokhina, and 34-year-old third secretary Mark Pletnev, registered in Yasenevo, where the SVR headquarters is located.
Pletnev was previously registered in Krasnokamensk, Zabaykalsky Krai, where a military unit was located. Two other first secretaries — 41-year-old Oleg Dunayevsky and 42-year-old Mikhail Chizhikov — were also registered in Moscow in houses where intelligence officers live, and the wife of 54-year-old Dmitry Sergeev received income in military unit 44408 in Khabarovsk, which is part of the GRU.
In the second group are 38-year-old second secretary Sergei Kamashev, who was registered on the territory of military unit 03113, that is, a GRU radio center, and 48-year-old Vitaly Kilunin, who used the address of the GRU headquarters. Attaché 47-year-old Vyacheslav Dulkin received income in military unit 46188 and listed the address of the finance department building of the Moscow garrison, while the wife of 53-year-old Valery Ravcheev used the address of the GRU headquarters.
Another attaché, 49-year-old Roman Shelkovsky, is registered in Balashikha in an area where military personnel live, and served in the 176th separate communications brigade, while trade mission employee 37-year-old Vitaly Stanevka used the address of the GRU headquarters and in April 2022 was expelled from Sweden as a GRU employee. Among those whose data “Agentstvo” attributes to indirect signs of ties to the security services is 57-year-old deputy head of the trade mission Alexander Vosmirko, a graduate of the Higher Border Military-Political School of the KGB and former employee of “Rosoboronexport” and “Rostec”.
Another deputy head of the trade mission, 41-year-old Alexander Svigach, served in the Aerospace Forces and used the address of the Signal center, which synthesized the poisons “Novichok” and epibatidine. The husband of 41-year-old first secretary Natalia Klishchenkova worked in the FSO, and the couple is in Serbia; in Moscow they are registered in a house where the wife of a GRU employee lives.
Third secretary 40-year-old Yevgeny Dementyev worked in the FSO, and 38-year-old attaché Dmitry Polyakov graduated from MTUCI in radio engineering and in Moscow used addresses where other Russian diplomats linked to the security services are registered.
