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The Ukrainians weren’t lying, they actually got Gen. Vitaly Gerassimov.

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His boss, who makes a looong pause when he hears the news of Gerassimov's death (before swearing), is Dmitry Shevchenko, a senior FSB officer from Tula. We identified him by searching for his phone (published by Ukrainian military Intel) in open source lookup apps.

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OSINTtechnical

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Mar 7

This is a pretty good independent confirmation

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Mar 7

This is also one of the most hilarious security failures I have seen in a while. The FSB officer called his boss on an unsecured phone line.

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Daniel

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Mar 7

I love that they're apparently just walking into local stores and stealing sim cards?

Michael Vasiliev

@infoscav

Mar 8

The best burner phone and sim are the ones you didn't pay for, no strings attached

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Except it appears to be a rich source of info for Ukraine. I'm guessing they're using tower triangulation to find signals coming out of Russian-controlled areas

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