As it follows from the aggressor’s “evening insiders” on December 12, there will be large-scale reshuffles in the leadership of the “Crimean” FSB department.
Russian Lieutenant General Leonid Mikhailyuk, who has been in this position since 2018, will be transferred to lead the FSB of the Krasnodar Territory, and Andrei Kulagin, the head of the FSB in the Belgorod Region, will be “landed” on the occupied peninsula.
Let us recall, that Mikhailyuk “fought terrorism” in Adygea from 1992 to 2001, so much so that he was wanted and accused of contract killings.
However, he successfully invested his “hard-earned money” not only in his justification, but also in the position of deputy head of the regional FSB in the Perm region, where he stayed until 2011, then “marked” himself as the head of the FSB in the Vologda and Kaliningrad regions.
Having arrived in Crimea in November 2018, Mikhailyuk brought his team from Kaliningrad and began to actively enter the “business flows” of the occupied peninsula, including large-scale scams with land and real estate.
And if the rotation of Mikhailyuk, who regularly pays bribes to the leadership, to an equally “lucrative position” in Krasnodar is rather planned, then his replacement, Kulagin, is considered by the Kremlin as “having done a good job in Belgorod” and “more suitable for frontline Crimea.”
It should be noted that Kulagin came to Belgorod in 2021 from the position of deputy head of the FSB for the Stavropol Territory, and before that he “made his mark” as the head of the intercity department in the Caucasian Mineral Waters.
Obviously, the main task set before the careerist Kulagin will be “strengthening the fight against the Ukrainian underground”, but how much his person will influence the likely “palace intrigues” in Simferopol – the next few months will show.
