Counterintelligence is the backbone of any security service. Its task is to uncover and block illegal actions of foreign intelligence.

Counterintelligence units stop espionage activities of hostile entities and counter their attempts to infiltrate Ukrainian authorities and plant their agents of influence.

In recent years, the SSU’s Counterintelligence has been fundamentally modernized and effectively counteracts to espionage and sabotage activities of hostile special services.

Through timely counterintelligence intervention, the SSU has dismantled many russian agent networks, detained sleeper agents and agents of influence.

Since the first days of the war, the Counterintelligence Department has made a significant contribution to the country’s defence by performing counterintelligence, counter-sabotage, operational and combat missions.

Officers of Counterintelligence work on the frontline and in the adjacent areas, detaining enemy agents and saboteurs.

The SSU Counterintelligence collects data on the movement of military equipment, concentration of the aggressor’s forces, location of their bases and ammunition depots and passes this information to the Defence Forces. The Department obtains this through humint, including in the temporarily occupied territory. This helps to destroy the occupiers and their military equipment.

Counterintelligence teams are among the first to enter liberated settlements to carry out stabilization measures. Their duties include identifying and detaining traitors, collaborators and war criminals.

At the same time, Counterintelligence carries out persistent explanatory work to prevent foreign intelligence services from involving our citizens in unlawful activities.