The Security Service of Ukraine, together with partners from other law enforcement agencies, conducted a series of large-scale operations and detentions on 18-20 January to counter crimes that pose a threat to state security, territorial integrity and defence capabilities of Ukraine.

During this period, the SSU conducted complex procedural actions in 157 criminal proceedings. As a result of these actions, 222 individuals were notified of suspicion, 85 of whom were detained.

Within the SSU’s investigations, the following perpetrators have been served suspicion notices:

• 19 enemy agents who carried out intelligence and sabotage activities for the russian intelligence services
• 39 persons involved in crimes in the military sphere, including those involved in embezzlement of the defence budget
• 63 persons, including officials of Territorial Recruitment Centers, former Medical and Social Expert Commissions and Military Medical Commissions, as well as medical institutions, suspected of organizing mobilization evasion schemes and illegal border crossing;
• 7 persons who harmed state security in the information sphere and cyberspace, including anti-Ukrainian propagandists;
• 24 persons who harmed the state’s economic interests;
• 7 persons involved in illegal trafficking of weapons and military munitions.

A total of 287 searches were carried out in these criminal proceedings.