The investigative journalism project Bihus.Info has submitted a request to Ukraine’s Security Service (SSU) regarding the awarding of the Order of Danylo Halytskyi to Roman Semenchenko, Head of the Department for the Protection of National Statehood, who was later fired after spying on journalists, and to Ihor Kravchenko, an SSU officer involved in the surveillance. […]
Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) Vasyl Maliuk brought up the situation regarding monitoring Bihus.Info journalists during a meeting with ambassadors from G7 countries. He provided information, announced personnel decisions, and assured that he would not allow any violations of the principles of freedom of speech in the activities of the SSU. Source: […]
Vasyl Maliuk, the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), met with ambassadors from the Group of Seven (G7) countries and answered questions “about the situation that occurred around the editorial office of Bihus.Info,” the SBU reported on Feb. 7. According to the SBU, Maliuk discussed the ways the SBU defends the country and […]
The Members of the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian Parliament) have voted to summon Vasyl Maliuk, Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), to the Parliament to hear his report about wiretapping the Bihus.Info group. Source: MP from the Voice party Yaroslav Zhelezniak, MP from the European Solidarity party Oleksii Honcharenko Quote from Zhelezniak: “After […]
The investigation into the surveillance of investigative outlet Bihus.Info will no longer be conducted by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the Prosecutor General’s Office announced on Feb. 6, after the outlet reported on Feb. 5 that one SBU department had been involved in the surveillance. “Given that law enforcement officers are probably involved in […]
Vasyl Maliuk, Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), has officially commented on the surveillance of journalists from Bihus.Info by the employees of the Department for the Protection of National Statehood of the SSU. He said that the head of the department within the Security Service of Ukraine has been dismissed. Source: Ukraine’s Security […]
Ukraine’s parliament voted to summon Vasyl Maliuk, the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), following the report on Feb. 5 that one SBU department was behind the surveillance of the team of the Ukrainian investigative outlet Bihus.info, lawmaker Yaroslav Zhelezniak said on Feb. 6. News that the Bihus.info team was under surveillance first […]
Journalists from the investigative outlet Bihus.Info noticed espionage activities while looking into the case of Ukraine’s SBU Security Service eavesdropping on their team, said the outlet’s editor and journalist, Alisa Yurchenko, in an interview with Radio Svoboda on Feb. 6. “We continued to notice spies outside our office,” Yurchenko said. “Typical ‘shadowing’ individuals who roamed […]
Ukrainian investigative media outlet Bihus.info reported on Feb. 5 that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) was behind illegal surveillance of the outlet’s team, after which a video appeared online showing some staff members allegedly using drugs during a private party. Speaking with Bihus.info, the recently dismissed head of an allegedly involved SBU department didn’t […]
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) stated on 5 February that the leadership had made some “decisions” concerning the personnel of the Department for the Protection of National Statehood after the investigation by the Bihus.Info project about illegal surveillance of its journalists. Source: press service of the SSU Quote: “The leadership of the SSU has […]
Investigative journalists from the Bihus.Info group claim to have identified those who had installed hidden cameras in hotel rooms to conduct surveillance of the editorial board. They were members of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU). Source: Bihus.Info Details: Reportedly, they were identified with the help of security cameras footage of the resort where Bihus.Info […]
The police have registered four cases under the article on violation of privacy due to covert filming and bugging of Bihus.info project employees. Source: Ivan Vyhivskyi, Head of the National Police, at a briefing at the Ukraine-Ukrinform media centre on 22 January Quote: “The Security Service has one case. The second case… Well, not even […]