Counterintelligence
| State security
During 2020, SBU CI initiated 119 criminal proceedings in the field of military economic and defense potential of Ukraine. Among them, 68 proceedings concern violations of the procedure international transfers of goods subject to state export control.
State security
The SBU blocked financing of the DNR terrorist organization due to large-scale illegal supply of pharmaceutical products to the temporarily occupied territories.
State security
The SBU served a suspicion notice in absentia to a former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the Party of Regions of his involvement in the creation of a terrorist organization and actions aimed at overthrowing the constitutional order.
Cyber security
The SBU Cyber experts exposed and suppressed a criminal scheme of extorting money from citizens taking out "easy" loans via the Internet.
State security
In Dnipropetrovsk region, the SBU blocked activity of a criminal organized group. The group committed high-profile crimes and intimidated people.
Cyber security
State security
A terrible accident took the lives of 25 people - crew members and cadets of Ivan Kozhedub Kharkiv National Air Force University. Two critically injured cadets were taken to the hospital.
State security
| Cyber security
SBU CI experts blocked the distribution channels of damaging information from Russia and so-called DNR using “bot farms”.
Counterintelligence
The SBU CI continues documenting attempts to recruit the Ukrainians by the so-called “MGB LNR”. The enemy has a particular interest in the representatives of public authorities and administration, as well as the law enforcement officers who have access to state secrets.
SSU reform
Talks that entrepreneurs complain about the pressure of the SBU are manipulative and untrue. According to Serhii Pun, the deputy head for the SBU reform, the number of complaints against the Service to the Business Ombudsman Council is much smaller than against other state bodies.
Center of Special Operations “A”
| Education and training
According to the scenario of drills, which recently took place in Chernihiv region, “terrorists” have taken hostages and threatened to blow up several “explosives” at a facility with a lot of people inside. The facility is located near the state border.
Anti-corruption
| State security
The SBU exposed a large-scale embezzlement of budget funds allocated for reconstruction of the cardiovacsular center of Zaporizzhia regional council.