Flow of anonymous bomb threats recorded across Ukraine on Wednesday - police
In the past 24 hours, the National Police has received nine false bomb reports in relation to 600 infrastructure objects in different cities across Ukraine.
Crime
13 January 2022
05 January 2022
Two more terrorists with "LPR-DPR" groups sentenced in absentia
Another two members of “LPR” and “DPR” terrorist organizations have been sentenced in Ukraine to 10 years in prison.
04 January 2022
In 2021, almost 500 explosive devices discovered in eastern Ukraine - SBU
As part of comprehensive measures to prevent and neutralize the threats of Russia’s intelligence and sabotage activity against the state security of Ukraine, the SBU security agency in 2021 discovered more than 40 arms caches planted by enemy forces in the zone of the Joint Forces Operation.
28 December 2021
Sham surrogacy scheme exposed in Ukraine
Ukrainian law enforcers have pressed formal charges against six members of a criminal group accused of setting up a scheme for trafficking in newborns.
24 December 2021
SBU neutralizes gang involved in extortion, abductions
The Security Service unit in eastern Ukraine’s Mariupol has made arrests in a raid against what’s believed to be an international criminal group that has been involved in abductions and coercing local residents to engage in drug trafficking schemes.
23 December 2021
Ukraine presses criminal charges against Russia’s PMC Wagner head
The chief of Russia’s Wagner Private Military Company has been formally charged with encroachment on Ukraine’s territorial integrity and inviolability of its borders and involvement in an aggressive war.
21 December 2021
Ex-military arrested for gathering intelligence on Ukraine’s air defense systems for Russia
In Dnipropetrovsk region, a former officer of an Air Force unit was exposed for stealing military secrets.
14 December 2021
SBU liquidates Ukraine’s largest network producing sham COVID-certificates
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has exposed another scheme of the illegal issue of international COVID-19 vaccination certificates.
09 December 2021
SBU locates body of BlaBlaCar driver murdered in 2016
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has located the remains of Taras Poznyakov, a BlaBlaCar carpool service driver killed in 2016.
08 December 2021
SBU thwarts mass shooting in Cherkasy college
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) says it prevented a terrorist attack in one of the colleges in Cherkasy region.
06 December 2021
SBU detains “DPR” militant, member of "Somalia" assault unit
SBU counterintelligence operatives have detained a member of the “Somalia” illegal armed group " during a special operation conducted in Donetsk region.
25 November 2021
Disinfo in Russia’s favor: SBU raids Kherson-based “bot farm”
Ukrainian law enforcers have exposed a bot farm set up by Kherson residents, operating in the interests of Russian handlers.
23 November 2021
Mykolaiv man nabbed trying to sell defense secrets
The SBU security service’s Office in Mykolaiv region has pressed treason charges against a local man who reportedly attempted to sell classified design documentation in the field of military shipbuilding.
SBU blocks scheme of illegal acquisition of citizenship of EU member state
In a special operation, SBU counterintelligence operatives have exposed an international criminal group that set up an illegal mechanism for obtaining foreign citizenship based on forged paperwork.
SBU blocks scheme of illegal acquisition of citizenship of EU member state
In a special operation, SBU counterintelligence operatives have exposed an international criminal group that set up an illegal mechanism for obtaining foreign citizenship based on forged paperwork.
19 November 2021
Court arrests two suspects in attempt on Ukraine's agriculture minister
Kyiv's Pechersky District Court has chosen measures of restraint for a U.S. citizen and a Ukrainian who, according to the investigation, were the perpetrators behind an assassination attempt on Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Roman Leshchenko, the spokesperson for the head of the National Police of Ukraine, Mariana Reva, has told Ukrinform.
Law enforcers thwart attempt on Ukraine's agriculture minister – interior minister
Law enforcement officers have detained a group of individuals who were planning to assassinate Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Roman Leshchenko, Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky has said.
05 November 2021
SBU suspects military officer of gathering classified data
Ukrainian counterintelligence operatives with the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) suspect an Army colonel with top security clearance, commander of the military units, who turned out to have gained Russian citizenship, of an unauthorized gathering of classified military documents.
04 November 2021
SBU identifies FSB hackers behind over 5,000 cyberattacks on Ukraine gov’t agencies
Cyber security experts with the SBU Security Service of Ukraine have identified hackers from the notorious ARMAGEDON group, responsible for more than 5,000 cyberattacks on Ukrainian government bodies and critical infrastructure facilities.
SBU identifies FSB hackers behind over 5,000 cyberattacks on Ukraine gov’t agencies
Cyber security experts with the SBU Security Service of Ukraine have identified hackers from the notorious ARMAGEDON group, responsible for more than 5,000 cyberattacks on Ukrainian government bodies and critical infrastructure facilities.
03 November 2021
Culprits selling fake COVID-certificates nabbed in Ukraine
The SBU Security Service of Ukraine has exposed a criminal group operating across the country’s regions, specializing in forging negative PCR tests for COVID-19 and vaccination certificates.
30 October 2021
Music royalty wars: SBU says copyright management boss caught on bribing MP
The SBU Security Service of Ukraine has exposed what it says was an attempt by a chief of one of the collective copyright management organizations to offer a massive bribe to a People’s Deputy for amending and postponing the hearing of a bill that would change the royalty collection system.
28 October 2021
SBU neutralizes 65,000 bots across social networks in 2021
Since year-start, SBU cyber experts have blocked operations of 12 "bot farms" with a capacity of over 65,000 accounts, through which anti-Ukrainian, anti-vaccine, and other destructive content was circulated across social media.
27 October 2021
SBU exposes fake COVID-19 certificates scheme
Cyber security operatives with the SBU Security Service of Ukraine have liquidated a criminal scheme where perpetrators had been selling forged COVID-19 vaccination certificates.
Three SBU officers suspected of kidnapping, torturing foreign IT specialist
Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) suspects two employees of the central office of the SBU State Security Service and an employee of the SBU's territorial division of the illegal detention of a foreign IT professional and extortion of money from him, the SBI's press service has reported.
Three SBU officers suspected of kidnapping, torturing foreign IT specialist
Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) suspects two employees of the central office of the SBU State Security Service and an employee of the SBU's territorial division of the illegal detention of a foreign IT professional and extortion of money from him, the SBI's press service has reported.
26 October 2021
Some 260,000 Ukrainians “victims of human trafficking” over 30 years - prosecutor general
Since Ukraine regained independence, nearly 260,000 Ukrainians have been trafficked.
Polish police detain Ukrainian for transporting 41 illegal migrants
A citizen of Ukraine was transporting 41 illegal migrants from Iraq and Turkey in a cargo van with Czech license plates in Poland, according to the official website of the Polish police.
23 October 2021
SBU neutralizes extortion gang led from by mob bosses from abroad
In a large-scale raid in Sumy region, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) nabbed an almost 50-strong criminal group specializing in extortion and racketeering.