Contents tagged with SBU

  • Head of SBU: Ukraine provided the UN proof of Russia’s involvement in the conflict in the Donbas

    Ukraine has provided thousands of pages of documentary evidence of Russia's participation in the conflict in the Donbas to the International Court of Justice, as stated by the head of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), Vasyl Hrytsak, at a briefing on Saturday. The suit itself was filed in mid-January, and in April Ukraine failed to achieve the approval of special measures against Russia in time for the suit’s consideration.

    "All of you know that in January, Ukraine initiated a suit in the …

  • SBU: more than 500 Russians who fought in the Donbas have left for Syria

    The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has information on more than half a thousand citizens of Russia who, after participating in military operations in the Donbas, went on to fight in Syria, said department head Vasyl Hrytsak during a briefing.

    "I would like to draw your attention to the fact that this is not about the official Russian military contingent in Syria. These are mercenaries of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, under the guise of a private military company called ' …

  • SBU: Putin gave order to undermine situation in Ukraine

    The Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Vasyl Hrytsak, has reported details of new attempts by the Russian side to organize provocations in Kyiv.

    "Attempts to undermine Ukraine continue. According to operational information, at a closed meeting of the Russian leadership in May, Putin criticized his aide Surkov for the failure of an operation to destabilize the socio-political situation in Ukraine, and set a new task to achieve the so-called 'resetting' of the ruling regime in …

  • Security Service of Ukraine detains Russian spy in Kyiv

    Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detained a Russian special services agent in Kyiv who tried to obtain secret military documents and recruit a representative of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, reports the Press Center of SBU.

    "A native and resident of Donetsk, from time to time visiting Kyiv, on instructions from Russian Special Services, intended to obtain information about personnel, provision, deployment, armament and movement along the line of demarcation for military …

  • Security Service of Ukraine detained the head of the Yavoriv military training area on suspicion of working for Russian intelligence

    The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) suspects the head of the Yavoriv training range of working for the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia. This is evidenced by the June 21st decision of the Shevchenkovsky district court of Kyiv, where, at the investigator's request, a laptop, mobile phone, three DVD-ROMs, a flash drive were seized as evidence, along with a piece of paper with the inscription "quarto xmail.net" and the phrase "on the order of …

  • Security Service of Ukraine opened 34 criminal proceedings against users of VKontakte and Odnoklassniki social networks

    Since early 2017, the Security Service of Ukraine has opened 34 criminal proceedings against users of the social networks, VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, on charges of spreading anti-Ukrainian propaganda, the press service of the SBU reports.

    "During January - June 2017 the SBU filed cases against the account owners and administrators of the social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, for disseminating appeals to overthrow the constitutional system and state power in the country, as well as …

  • SBU: two Russian border guards who crossed into Ukraine from Crimea were charged with violating territorial integrity of Ukraine

    The Russian border guards who were detained in the Kherson Oblast near the administrative border with the Crimea were charged with violating the territorial integrity of Ukraine, reported the press service of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

    “The investigators of the SBU Directorate in the Kherson Oblast reported suspicion of committing a crime under Part 2 of Article 110 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (violation of the territorial supremacy and inviolability of Ukraine) against Russian …

  • Security Service of Ukraine opens case against detained Russian border guards

    The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) initiated criminal proceedings according to article 110 of the Criminal Code (infringement of territorial integrity) against detained Russian border guards Askar Kulub and Vladimir Kuznetsov. The SBU is preparing to file charges against them, as reported on the SBU’s website.

    The investigation believes that in the period between December 2016 and the 30th of June 2017, Kulub (deputy commander of the reserve unit no. 9930) and Kuznetsov (head of canine …

  • Head of Security Service of Ukraine: Purpose of cyber attack was to destabilize the situation inside Ukraine

    Ukrainian law enforcement agencies together with international experts continue to look into the circumstances of a powerful cyber attack against Ukrainian private and state institutions on June 27th, Interfax-Ukraine reports.

    “Today, our experts, in cooperation with experts from the United States, the United Kingdom and Microsoft, are working together to establish the circumstances of this cyber-attack,” said the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Vasyl Hrytsak on Tuesday at the …

  • Security Service of Ukraine accuses Russia of launching the Petya ransomware attack on Ukraine

    The Security Service of Ukraine has accused Russian Special Services of launching the computer ransomware Petya.A.

    In the opinion of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), this virus was disguised as ransomware, but in fact its goal was a purposeful destabilization of the socio-political situation in Ukraine.

    "The virus is a cover for a large-scale attack aimed at Ukraine, as evidenced by the absence of a real mechanism for seizing money, whose primitiveness only confirms the view that …