The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) charged two Russian generals who commanded air strikes on high-rise buildings in the town of Borodianka in Kyiv Oblast during the fighting in 2022, the SBU reported on March 4. Borodianka, once a town of 12,000 people 40 kilometers northwest of Kyiv, has suffered some of the worst destruction […]
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detained a Dnipro resident who was allegedly recruited by Russia to pass on information on the city’s air defense, the SBU’s press service reported on March 4. According to the SBU, the man was recruited to aid Russian attacks in December 2023 after posting on pro-Kremlin Telegram channels. The […]
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detained a Kharkiv resident who was allegedly aiding Russian attacks on the city’s civilian infrastructure, including a Jan. 23 strike that injured nine people, the SBU’s press service reported on Feb. 21. Russia fired S-300 and Kh-22 missiles at Kharkiv late on Jan. 23, damaging houses, an educational institution, […]
Ukraine’s SBU security service has indicted Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in absentia and detained two top managers of his company in Ukraine, its press service announced on Feb. 15. According to the investigation, the suspects supplied Russia with raw materials for the production of various types of weapons, including Iskander missiles. Read also: Russian oligarch […]
SBU cyber specialists have exposed another agent of Russian special services who leaked the location of Ukrainian air defense to the enemy and also spotted Russian missile strikes inKharkiv, Ukraine’s SBU security service reported on Telegram on Feb. 14. The main targets were strategically important enterprises, including those of Ukraine’s defense industry. The Russian forces also hoped to geolocate Ukrainian air defenses from the informant. According […]
A Russian agent has been detained in Kyiv Oblast by the SBU Security Service of Ukraine who was collecting intelligence on the Defense Forces and critical infrastructure in the region, the SBU reported on Feb. 13. The suspect attempted to pinpoint the locations of Armed Forces aviation and showed interest in the routes and frequency […]
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), in coordination with the State Bureau of Investigations (SBR), has laid charges in absentia against a former SBU official accused of abducting and torturing local residents in occupied Melitopol, the service announced on Feb. 9. Serhiy Handzha, who has been living in exile in Russia since 2014, is alleged to have […]
Ukraine’s SBU security service has pressed new charges in absentia against Serhiy Handzha, a former high-ranking SBU official under Viktor Yanukovych, the special service reported on Dec. 9. According to the investigation, after the start of the full-scale invasion, he headed the Russian Federal Security Service unit in the temporarily occupied part of Zaporizhzhya Oblast. […]
The Security Service of Ukraine is conducting searches in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra on the morning of Feb. 9, reported NV citing its informed sources. The SBU visited a priest who coordinated staged protests during the return of Lavra property to the state, according to sources. UOC MP in Ukraine The SBU has conducted inspections in monasteries, churches, and premises of the UOC MP throughout Ukraine last year. Counterintelligence operations uncovered a large […]
Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) drones struck two oil refineries in the Krasnodar Krai of the Russian Federation, sources reported to NV on Feb. 9. According to the source, the attack on the Ilya refinery resulted in a large fire, and the primary processing unit, costing $50 million with a capacity of 3.6 million tons […]
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) began conducting searches at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (monastery) on Feb. 9, several Ukrainian media outlets reported, citing sources in the service. The monastery, one of Kyiv’s dominant landmarks, was leased to the Moscow Patriarchate-linked Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC-MP) before authorities ordered to restore the Lavra’s property to the […]
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 […]