The SBU continues to provide a fair and unbiased investigation of archival materials from the SSU Archive about the Holodomor as well as other crimes committed by totalitarian regime. It was reported by the Director of the SBU Sectoral State Archive Andrii Kohut during the international forum “Mass man-made famine: remember and honour”.

“The main task of the security service is to protect the state`s interests, in particular, during the informational war waged by Russia. It is of high interest for Ukraine to continue providing a fair and unbiased investigation of archival materials. So, the SBU continues its efforts in this regard and gives access to the truth of crimes committed by totalitarian regime”, noted Andrii Kohut.

The Director of the SBU Sectoral State Archive emphasized that the Russia used the theme of Holodomor in hybrid warfare against Ukraine to manipulate historical facts, spread fake news and disinformation with the aim of diminishing the scale of genocide against Ukrainian nation. The importance of counteracting is the issue of protecting information space of Ukraine.

The Director of the SBU Sectoral State Archive Andrii Kohut reminded that in 2009 year the SBU conducted the criminal proceedings upon the fact of genocide in Ukraine in 1932-1933. During the investigation, it was gathered 330 volumes of the case, interrogated 1890 witnesses and documented 857 places of the Terror Famine victims mass grave. The SBU investigators determined that Soviet Union Communist Party leaders deliberately organized the mass destruction against Ukrainian. In 2010, the court confirmed the case of genocide, although closed the criminal case due to the death of accused persons.

“On the one head such investigation is a symbolic character, on the other is an important legal moment that intensifies an official stance of Ukraine that crimes against Ukrainian nation could be prosecuted at any time in the future”, noted Andrii Kohut.

As he said, the SBU investigators continue to prosecute the offenders till now. The SBU Archive is a source not only for research activity, but also for the activity of special service.

Andrii Kohut underlined that the SBU State Archive is the largest state institution in the post-Soviet space with open access to documents and everyone who is interested in the period of totalitarian communist regime has an opportunity to visit it.