Colonel-General Fyodor Ladygin, who headed the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of Russia in the 90s, died at the age of 85 after a long illness. Nikolai Deryabin, head of the staff of the Club of military leaders of the Russian Federation, told TASS about this.
General Ladygin was the chief of the GRU General Staff from 1992 to 1997. He began his service in the GRU in 1973 as a senior officer, and in 1990 he became chief of the Treaty-Legal Directorate of the General Staff.
After retirement, Ladygin worked as deputy director of the Mistko company, which supplies cane sugar from Cuba. The ex-head of the GRU in 1999 participated in the elections of the State Duma deputies of the third convocation in the Novooskolsk constituency.
In March 2018, Fedor Ladygin, in an interview with the official newspaper of the Russian Armed Forces, Krasnaya Zvezda, commented on London’s accusations of Moscow’s involvement in the poisoning of ex-GRU colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter. He said that Russian intelligence was not involved in such “heinous nonsense” as poisoning its former employees abroad.
“The Russian intelligence structure, in which I had the honor of serving for many years, has never, I repeat, never engaged in such heinous nonsense that the UK is now trying to attribute to our country,” Ladygin said.
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