Aleksey Galkin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Aleksey Galkin

GRU officer

Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1970

Place of Birth: Cherkasy, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine

Profession: military officer

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Alexey Viktorovich Galkin (Russian: ??????? ?????????? ??????) is a former Russian GRU officer.
A senior lieutenant of the GRU, Alexei Galkin said, whilst being tortured by Chechen separatists, commanded by Abu Movsaev, that the apartment bombing in Buynaksk were organized by a team of twelve GRU officers and ordered by GRU director Valentin Korabelnikov The interview of Galkin was conducted by journalist Robert Young Pelton, who was also interviewing Abu Movsaev, who wrote about it in his book Hunter, Hammer, Heaven, Dangerous Journeys Through Three Worlds Gone Mad.
Galkin later escaped from Chechen separatists and stated that he was tortured to produce this confession