Anti-graft agency claims corruption scheme exposed in Ukraine’s Supreme Court
The National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine says its agents have exposed an alleged large-scale corruption scheme in the country’s Supreme Court.
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15 May 2023
11 May 2023
Ukraine’s security agency charges three ex-MPs with high treason
Former People's Deputies from the banned Party of Regions, Oleh Tsariov, Dmytro Sviatash, and Ihor Markov, who are hiding from justice in Russia, have been charged with treason.
10 May 2023
Detained Motor Sich chief wants to be swapped to Russia - media
The ex-president of Ukraine’s Motor Sichi aviation engine manufacturer Vyacheslav Bohuslaev has reportedly asked the authorities to be put on the list for prisoner exchange with Russia.
SBU identifies three enemy collaborators involved in setting up torture chamber
The Security Service of Ukraine has identified another three traitors involved in the mass torture of civilians in the temporarily captured areas of Mykolaiv region.
Second mobile DNA lab to be deployed in Ukraine’s war zones
Ukrainian law enforcement received from France a second mobile DNA laboratory to operate in active combat zones.
06 May 2023
Woman to spend 12 years behind bars for tipping Russia on Ukrainian Army positions
A court in Ukraine’s Kyiv region has sentenced to 12 years in prison a woman, who is a Donetsk region native, for passing on to the enemy operative sensitive intelligence exposing the Ukrainian defense forces amid war.
04 May 2023
SBI opens case against head of Odesa Military Commissariat who exempts from conscription for bribes
Employees of the State Bureau of Investigation have opened criminal proceedings over abuse of office by the head of the Odesa Regional Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Support during mobilization activities.
03 May 2023
Oil depot on fire near Crimean bridge in Krasnodar region
A fire broke out at an oil depot in the Krasnodar region near the port of Taman, not far from the occupied Crimea.
The SBI probing some 1,500 cases of crimes against national security
The State Bureau of Investigation is running almost 1,500 criminal proceedings into crimes against national security.
Ukrainians among victims of trafficking ring exposed in Finland
As Finland’s prosecutors brought human trafficking charges against a group of individuals, Ukrainian nationals are named among those affected.
01 May 2023
Kharkiv man sentenced to five years for tipping Russians on Ukraine’s air defenses
A man from Kharkiv who is believed to have been giving Russian forces sensitive intelligence on the positions of air defense systems was sentenced to five years in prison.
SBU detains Russian informant who leaks data on defense of plants in Odesa region
In the Odesa region, the Security Service detained an employee of a local chemical plant who was passing information to Russia about the locations of the Defense Forces and industrial facilities in the region.
26 April 2023
FBI working with U.S. firms to collect war crime evidence in Ukraine
Ukraine is working with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and American companies to collect evidence of war crimes by Russian forces, such as geolocation and cellphone information.
Court seizes UAH 1B of Oksana Marchenko's assets in Zaporizhzhia Ferroalloy Plant
The court seized UAH 1 billion of assets belonging to Oksana Marchenko, wife of former MP and leader of the banned in Ukraine party OPFL Viktor Medvedchuk, in Zaporizhzhia Ferroalloy Plant JSC.
25 April 2023
SBU nabs enemy artillery spotter in Donetsk region
As part of counter-subversive measures undertaken in the front-line areas of Donetsk region, the Security Service exposed a spotter for the Russian artillery who had been tipping the Russians on the locations of Ukraine’s military targets.
20 April 2023
SBU detains "fixer" working for Russian media outlet from Kyiv
The Security Service of Ukraine apprehended in Kyiv a Ukrainian man who helped the Russian Federation create and spread fake news on the war, including on the socio-political situation in the country’s capital.
17 April 2023
More than 130 traitors, collaborators convicted in Kharkiv region
More than 2,200 cases over collaborationism and high treason have been opened in Kharkiv region, court sentences have already been passed for 133 people.
14 April 2023
NABU claims new evidence in Naftogaz ex-CEO case found
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau justifies the need to continue investigating the case of former Naftogaz of Ukraine CEO Andriy Kobolyev by the appearance of new evidence - correspondence of persons involved in awarding him a bonus UAH 229 million.
Moldova sentences pro-Russian party chief to 15 years in prison
On Thursday, the Chisinau Court of Appeal sentenced the fugitive deputy leader of the Shor party, Ilan Shor, to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property worth 5 billion lei (over $270 million).
13 April 2023
U.S. law enforcement arrest man suspected to be involved in Pentagon leak - media
U.S. investigators have identified and apprehended a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman, who is believed to be the leader of a gaming online chat group in which publications of what’s alleged to be top secret Pentagon documents initially appeared.
FSB claims Ukrainian was involved in liquidation of “military blogger” Tatarsky
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has claimed that a Ukrainian citizen, Yuriy Denisov, was involved in the murder of "military correspondent" Vladlen Tatarsky and his associate Daria Trepova, and has managed to leave Russia.
12 April 2023
Facial recognition tool helps Ukraine identify war criminals
Border guards used Clearview AI facial recognition software to identify over 10,000 persons complicit in Russia’s war crimes.
11 April 2023
Ukraine puts on wanted list spouse of Putin’s political ally
The Security Service of Ukraine has declared wanted Oksana Marchenko, the wife of a pro-Russian politician, Viktor Medvedchuk, who was earlier tried on high treason charges before being given to Russia in a major POW swap effort.
Trials against pro-Russian propaganda pundits launched in Latvia
A series of trials against local journalists who collaborated with pro-Kremlin publications Sputnik and Baltnews is kicking off in the capital of Latvia, Riga.
SBU detains informer who collected data on defense of South Ukraine NPP
Ukraine's SBU State Security Service has exposed an informer of a Russian intelligence agency in the Mykolaiv region who was collecting intelligence on the locations and numbers of units of the Ukrainian defense forces guarding the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant.
09 April 2023
Ukraine court to try Mariupol school principal for treason
The high treason case against the principal of the Mariupol-based school, who sided with the occupiers and sealed a similar position in Russia-captured Berdiansk, was forwarded to court.
08 April 2023
Pro-Moscow church cleric on wanted list in Ukraine for assaulting veteran
Ukraine’s police have put on a wanted list subdeacon Ihor Slobodian of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), who is charged with assaulting Artur Ananiev, a war veteran, in the Holy Intercession Cathedral in Khmelnytskyi.
06 April 2023
Court seizes land of Medvedchuk's wife worth almost 17.5 million
Based on the SBU materials and in cooperation with the Lviv Regional Prosecutor's Office, the court seized two more land plots with real estate illegally owned by Oksana Marchenko. The total amount is almost UAH 17.5 million.
01 April 2023
Court places UOC MP Metropolitan Pavlo under house arrest for 60 days
The Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv has placed the abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavlo of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP) under round-the-clock house arrest for 60 days.
31 March 2023
Ukrainian court hands down first verdict in Crimea deportation case
The Ukrainian court passed the first sentence in a case of the deportation of the population from the temporarily occupied Crimea. A local "judge" who was involved in the deportation of Crimean residents from the temporarily occupied peninsula was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison.