These are the agents who planned the murder of Djukanovich (Photo)

As British media write, photographes taken by European intelligence agencies are said to indicate two Russian GRU military spying officers visiting the Balkans and overseeing the person they employed to orchestrate the bloody collapse of the Montenegrin government on the day of the 16 October 2016 elections.

Edward Shishamkov (1) and Vladimir Popov (2), both GRU military intelligence officers, are accused of orchestrating the plot

According to “The Telegraph”, it is Edward Shishmakov and Vladimir Popov, who are expected to stand trial next month with 13 others, for their role in the plot to attack Montenegro's parliament and kill Milo Djukanovic, the pro-Western leader.

The photographs are believed to have taken place in a Belgrade park and are a key part of the evidence that prosecutors say links the plot to Russia's <x0 state-owned sub-organs”.

According to the media, Telegrafi traces, the Kremlin has strongly denied any involvement and the two pro-Russian opposition leaders among the defendants claim the plot is false and become to discredit them.

GRU official Edward Shishmakov (1) met Aleksandar Sindelic (2) before the coup effort

British and American officials, however, believe the plot had high-level support from Russia and was one of the most courageous examples of Kremlin efforts to undermine European democracies.

Shishmakov and Popov, who are being tried in their absence, are said to have begun planning coups several months ago, traveling in neighbouring Serbia to seek a “appropriate organiser on the ground”.

The Russian pair allegedly named Aleksandar Sindelic, a veteran anti-Western activist.

The published photos reportedly show Shishmakov and Popov together in a park and also Shishmakov speaking with Sindelic.

European intelligence agencies are understood to have helped Montenegrins collect a large number of evidence of what is estimated the greatest judgment the smaller Balkan nation has ever seen.

As it further adds, Shishmakov and Popov gave Sindelic large sums of money for weapons and equipment and were also given a detector to check whether he was a Western intelligence agent.

A long indictment against the plot states that the network was also given sophisticated coded phones of “prepared from Moscow, while at least a transfer of money to conspirators was made by the same route as the GRU headquarters in the Russian capital.