SBU to vet staffers of critical infrastructure facilities to expose potential enemy collaborators

27.10.2022 12:41

Ukrinform

Ukrainian law enforcement and security forces are working to identify among personnel of Ukraine's critical infrastructure facilities, including energy objects, those inclined to cooperate with the enemy.

This was reported by the acting chief of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Vasyl Maliuk, in an interview with Interfax, Ukrinform reports.

"In general, every place where such facilities are located is constantly worked out within the framework of counter-sabotage and anti-terrorist efforts. What does this mean? A specific location is selected, the Security Service of Ukraine, National Police, and National Guard come in, and through such a step-by-step screening, we find those who are potentially ready to work with enemy. As a rule, there are also those who are actually working for them," Maliuk said

According to the SBU chief, one of the employees of a thermal power plant P was recently detained, who under the pretext of carrying out repair works, “was sending data to the enemy regarding the actual coordinates of energy facilities, and then reported to the occupiers the results of the strikes. He is already testifying," added the acting head of he SBU.

Answering a question of whether the facts of attacks on the energy infrastructure of Ukraine will be the subject of consideration in international courts, the head of the Ukrainian security service said: "Individual episodes, individual pieces of evidence will be included in criminal proceedings that will be heard in international courts."

In this context, he noted that he sees absolutely real prospects for the creation of the Special Tribunal to prosecute Russia’s military and political leadership for crimes of aggression.

"These are absolutely real prospects. Whatever depends on the Security Service, whatever is part of its jurisdiction, is being documented accordingly. We are gathering a real treasure trove of evidence that will show who is who in court in the future," he said.

According to the head of the Ukrainian security agency, law enforcement needs to undertake maximum efforts so that Ukraine's position is "not about emotions and words, but real facts within criminal cases."