SBU exposes scheme for smuggling warplane engine parts to Russia
Ukrainian counterintelligence operatives with the SBU Security Service have prevented the illegal shipment to Russia of Ukrainian spare parts to combat fighter jets.
Crime
21 October 2021
SBU nabs FSB asset
SBU counterintelligence in Vinnytsia region detained an FSB asset trained by terrorists in the temporarily occupied Donbas.
20 October 2021
SBU exposes cross border trafficking ring offering migrants forged EU passports
The Security Service of Ukraine has blocked an illegal migration channel to the European Union involving fake IDs.
18 October 2021
SBU detains bank robbery gang
Ukraine's SBU State Security Service has conducted a special operation to detain three people who in 2016 carried out a series of attacks on branches of banking institutions and bank vans in Zaporizhia, the SBU's press center has reported.
08 October 2021
Microsoft: Ukraine among top three countries targeted by Russian cyberattacks
From July 2020 to June 2021, the top three countries targeted by Russian nation-state actors were the United States, Ukraine and the UK.
02 October 2021
Investigation into attack on Shefir: More than ten versions being considered, but two remain the main
Law enforcer officers are considering more than ten versions of the assassination attempt on Serhiy Shefir, the first aide to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, but two versions remain the main ones.
30 September 2021
SBU neutralizes group “selling” Ukrainian seamen to gangs trafficking migrants
The SBU has exposed an international criminal group involved in recruiting Ukrainian sailors before coercing them to work on vessels carrying illegal migrants from Central Asia to EU countries.
29 September 2021
SBU presses charges against FSB-hired hitman who assassinated spec-ops forces officer
Ukraine’s counterintelligence operatives with the SBU security service say a Russian FSB agent has been charged with treason.
28 September 2021
SBU detains ex-top official of Ukraine’s armored plant who fled to occupied Donbas amid corruption probe
The Security Service of Ukraine has apprehended a former senior official of the Kyiv Armored Plant SE, who was in office in 2014 when he inflicted UAH 12 million losses to the state budget through corrupt schemes.
24 September 2021
Border guards expose phone smuggling scheme involving airline crew
At Ukraine’s Boryspil Airport near Kyiv, border guards have exposed a conspiracy involving flight attendants of a Ukrainian air carrier, aimed at smuggling into the country from UAE a batch of valuable electronic devices.
Border guards expose phone smuggling scheme involving airline crew
At Ukraine’s Boryspil Airport near Kyiv, border guards have exposed a conspiracy involving flight attendants of a Ukrainian air carrier, aimed at smuggling into the country from UAE a batch of valuable electronic devices.
23 September 2021
Attempt on Zelensky’s aide no hoax - Interior Ministry
The assassination attempt on Serhiy Shefir, First Aide to the President of Ukraine, was a real one, not a staged stunt, so today law enforcement will continue searching for evidence in the forest area outside Kyiv, around the ambush site.
22 September 2021
Criminal proceedings launched over attack on Ukrainian presidential aide's car
Criminal proceedings have been instituted after a car carrying the Ukrainian president's first aide, Serhiy Shefir, was shot at in Kyiv region early on Wednesday, September 22, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova has written on Facebook.
SBU busts group over forging COVID-related paperwork for border crossing
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Bukovyna has exposed a scheme that involved forging and selling documents required for unimpeded border crossing in the context of the COVID-related restrictions.
Shots fired at car of Zelensky’s first aide Serhiy Shefir
Kyiv region’s Police Department has reported an attack on the vehicle of Serhiy Shefir, First Aide to President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.
21 September 2021
Law enforcers nab militant at Donbas crossing checkpoint
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has pressed charges against a citizen of Ukraine who is believed to have been part of the “DPR” terrorist group and was earlier detained by Ukraine military as he attempted to cross in from the temporarily occupied areas in the country’s east.
16 September 2021
SBU discovers cache with explosives, anti-tank grenades in Zakarpattia
Operatives with the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) have revealed in Zakarpattia region a cache packed with explosives and ammo.
15 September 2021
Car explosion takes two lives in Dnipro: Police qualify incident as terrorist attack
Law enforcers have qualified this morning’s car blast in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, which killed two, as a terrorist attack.
SBU detains man involved in running 2014 pseudo-referendum in Luhansk region
The SBU security service has located and apprehended one of the organizers of an illegal "referendum" held in Luhansk region back in 2014.
06 September 2021
Maidan crackdown: Court extends restrictive measure against former security chief in custody
Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi District Court has extended until November 4 the restrictive measure against Oleksandr Shcheholev, former chief of the SBU security agency’s Kyiv office, suspected in the case of brutal suppression of the Maidan protests, in the form of personal recognizance.