The Counterterrorism Centre at the SSU coordinates operational and combat activities of the Defence Forces responsible for combating terrorism in wartime.

Since the beginning of 2023, as many as 1,500 anti-terrorist and counter-sabotage measures have been conducted under the coordination of the Counterterrorism Centre. Most of them were held in Ukraine’s frontline regions and on the frontline.

This was reported during a meeting of the Interagency Coordination Commission of the CTC chaired by the SSU First Deputy Head Serhii Andrushchenko.

Representatives of the SSU, the National Police, the Foreign Intelligence Service, the State Protection Department, the State Border Guard Service, the State Emergency Service and other counterterrorism actors took part.

The meeting noted that the CTC’s counterterrorist and counter-sabotage measures have resulted in detentions and exposures of enemy intelligence networks, spotters, sabotage and reconnaissance groups.

Investigations are ongoing in 655 criminal proceedings, including those on high treason, collaboration and espionage for the aggressor state.

For example, in Kharkiv:

An enemy agent was detained ‘red-handed’: he is the one who had coordinated russia’s attack on the city on 5 February 2023.

In Khmelnytskyi region:

An FSB agent was exposed on trying to install a GPS tracker at a railway facility to direct enemy missiles at it.

In Zaporizhzhia:

A traitor was detained for coordinating a ruscist air strike on a residential neighbourhood in April this year. Two people were killed and over 50 private households were damaged.

In Kherson region:

three collaborators were apprehended and a large cache with russian munitions was discovered.

In Zaporizhzhia, Odesa and Mykolaiv regions:

Several russian agent networks were dismantled. Its members were, collecting intelligence on deployment of Ukraine’s Defence Forces and adjusting enemy air strikes on the southern regions.

Among other things, the participants of the meeting agreed on mechanisms for responding to massive false bombs threats in Ukraine’s different regions.

As a follow-up of the meeting, the leadership of the Counterterrorism Centre at the SSU and other participants of the Interagency Coordination Commission developed algorithms for joint actions to effectively perform the tasks.