Putin purges more than 100 FSB agents in apparent retaliation amid Ukraine invasion quagmire
April 12, 2022 at 00:32 AM EDT
Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly ousted about 150 agents from the FSB, the successor agency to the KGB. The ousted agents belonged to the Fifth Service, a division that Putin – then director of the FSB – set up in 1998 in order to carry out operations in the countries of the former Soviet Union, aiming to keep those countries in Russia's orbit.
