During the war, the SSU Main Directorate for Countering Systemic Threats to State Administration has focused on uncovering and stopping crimes that pose a direct threat to national security, have a destructive impact on state administration and other negative consequences for the society.

This includes the following tasks:

• counteracting to destruction of state apparatus and local government through systemic illegal activities in the field of state administration
• fighting against organized and transnational crime
• cleansing the judiciary and the bar of Ukraine from collaborators and traitors
• thwarting espionage and sabotage activities of foreign intelligence services
• countering the financing of separatism, terrorism and extremism, weakening of the aggressor state’s financial footing
• participation in the interagency working group to form evidence base on the crimes of russian occupiers
• elimination of schemes of illegal transportation of military-aged persons across the state border

As a result of the SSU’s investigations, thousands of russian servicemen and mercenaries who were directly involved in the armed aggression have been identified. This helps to collect evidence for international courts to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Equally important is the fight against the internal enemy. These are officials whose actions harm state security in a number of areas; they act both on their own initiative, pursuing selfish motives, and as a result of intelligence and sabotage activities of russian special services.