Evan Gershkovich: “Looking over the passengers, he looked straight at me, one of the prisoners. He didn’t say anything and stared in silence for almost a minute. Then he turned and looked at the curtains of the presidential plane. I returned to the sectioned-off section, and I was left wondering about this man who seemed to hold my fate in his hands.
“Even when I was arrested by Russian security forces in 2023, the first foreign correspondent to be charged with espionage since the Cold War, I didn’t stop reporting. When I was released, I… We decided to identify the man and find out more about the spy squad that carried out his orders.”
“During my 16 months in prison, my colleagues at work wall street journal I was asking questions in parallel. ”
“Together, we are able to identify the man behind the curtain as Lieutenant General Dmitry Minaev and uncover a treasure trove of new details about the unit he commands, the counterintelligence division. Known as DKRO, it is the very heart of Putin’s opaque wartime regime.
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