Crime

18 January 2022

13 January 2022

05 January 2022

04 January 2022

In 2021, almost 500 explosive devices discovered in eastern Ukraine - SBU

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

24 December 2021

SBU neutralizes gang involved in extortion, abductions

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

21 December 2021

14 December 2021

09 December 2021

08 December 2021

06 December 2021

25 November 2021

23 November 2021

Mykolaiv man nabbed trying to sell defense secrets

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.

19 November 2021

Court arrests two suspects in attempt on Ukraine's agriculture minister

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.

05 November 2021

SBU suspects military officer of gathering classified data

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

03 November 2021

30 October 2021

28 October 2021

SBU neutralizes 65,000 bots across social networks in 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

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

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

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

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