France's foreign ministry explicitly accused Russia's GRU military intelligence agency on 29 April of mounting cyber-attacks on a dozen entities including ministries, defense firms and think tanks since 2021 to destabilize France. The accusations, levelled at GRU unit APT28, which officials said was based in Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia, are not the first by a Western power, but it is the first time Paris has blamed the Russian state on the basis of its own intelligence.
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