 According to Ben Macintyre in the London "Times" in December 2019, the unit is believed to be responsible for a destabilisation campaign in Moldova and a failed coup plot in Montenegro in 2016 including an attempt to assassinate the prime minister and occupy the parliament building by force.The unit's operations were described as sloppy by security officials since none of the operations to which it has been linked were successful.An assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies in 2020 concluded that Unit 29155 operated a Russian bounty program that offered cash rewards to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. and other coalition soldiers in Afghanistan.