In Kyiv the SSU officials revealed and suppressed the criminal group activity which hacked into banks computer networks and illegally stole money from legal entities and individuals' accounts. In order not to attract attention of law enforcement bodies the criminals stole each time UAH 50-95 thousand using ATM (according to the Ukrainian legislation banking operation to the amount of less than UAH 100 thousand is not liable to financial monitoring).

The discussion touched upon the political, economic and security advantages of Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic Integration in the context of NATO's assistance to Partner states to bring the state institutions activity in line with the principles of legality and democracy. The presentation "External and Internal Factors which Influence the NATO/Ukraine Cooperation" by an expert in international security was the focus of the seminar (see the text below).

On 29 January 2010, the Security Service of Ukraine countered espionage activities in Ukraine, following the detention of a Russian citizen "C" and his accomplice, a resident of Sevastopol, citizen of Ukraine "T", who were attempting to export illegally military equipment containing state secrets of Ukraine. A Russia citizen "C" who worked as a deputy director of a Russian defense industry enterprise specializing in the production of classified electronic equipment for naval vessels and emergency naval complexes.

The Security Service of Ukraine has countered the activities of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation which involved gathering information on Ukrainian state secrets in the military sphere on the territory of Ukraine. On January 27, the SSU officials caught an FSB officer in the act of receiving classified information from a Ukrainian citizen and handing over a reward worth USD 2000 for the information provided.

On 27 January 2010, the Zhytomyr region Court of Appeal found three Ukrainians guilty - a married couple Ihor and Natalia Manjos and Vadim Koval'chuk - of the crime of the High Treason, as laid out in Part 1, Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The Court sentenced them to 11, 10 and 7 years of imprisonment respectively. One of the convicted was also deprived of military rank "lieutenant-colonel" in reserve. The abovementioned citizens came in the sights of the Ukrainian counterintelligence in 2007 as individuals who had been uncharacteristically focused and interested in state secret military and technical information, to which they had no right of access.

Within the scope of nation-wide special operation on counteraction to illegal activities in credit and banking sphere and to use of illegal financial resources during the elections, the SSU officials in cooperation with the Tax Administration and Prosecutor's Office of Odessa region stopped illegal activities of the criminal group, which provided services of money conversion. It was established that with a view of money laundering and concealing the sources of the obtained profits the criminals used a range of specially created bogus and acting commercial structures. The criminals withdrew money from bank accounts on the basis of sham contracts. Monthly turnover of the conversion center used to be more than UAH 30 million.

The SSU set up working group with the purpose of giving legal assessment of addresses and messages from representatives of international and non-governmental organizations on elections fraud.

To prevent bribery of the citizens during the elections of the President of Ukraine the Security Service of Ukraine is conducting a nationwide special operation on suppression of illegal commercial structures activity. Such structures try to transmit cash into shadow circulation in order to use it in the electoral process for the benefit of some candidates. The Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Valentyn Nalyvaichenko stressed at the briefing that the exclusion of dirty cash distribution to the electorate is the main task of the Service for today. "The key matter for the special service is the suppression of illegal money laundering centers activity and cash ingress to the electoral process" - V. Nalyvaichenko mentioned.

On January 13, 2010 Kyiv Court of Appeal tried a criminal case and made a ruling on the grounds laid out in part I, of article 442 (genocide) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The case was investigated by the Security Service of Ukraine on the mass extermination by famine of millions of Ukrainian peasants on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR in 1932-1933 orchestrated by the leadership of bolshevist totalitarian regime.