The Security Service of Ukraine, the National Police and the Office of the Prosecutor General have collected evidence against major-general Aleksandr Novikov – the head of the department for the construction and development of unmanned aerial systems at the general staff of the russian armed forces.
The Security Service of Ukraine has detained another enemy agent in Kropyvnytskyi who was preparing russia’s new missile and drone attacks on facilities in Ukraine’s fuel and energy sector.
The SSU Counterintelligence has exposed an agent network of russia’s federal security service that guided russian air strikes against the Defence Forces in the Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Kirovohrad regions.
The Security Service of Ukraine has dismantled a criminal group that organised an international smuggling route for hard drugs from southern Europe to Ukraine. The monthly ‘income’ from the illegal business amounted to 15–20 million Hryvnias (USD 333,000 – 444,000).
The Security Service, in conjunction with the National Police and the Public Prosecutor’s Office, has uncovered a large-scale network of clandestine call centres in the Lviv region that were defrauding Ukrainian and EU citizens of their money.
Based on evidence collected by the Security Service of Ukraine, three more individuals who defected to the enemy and fought against Ukraine on the eastern front have been sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment and confiscation of property.
The SSU Counterintelligence has detained another two members of an agent network of russia’s federal security service responsible for directing enemy shelling on Dnipro. They turned out to be the mother and brother of a russian agent whom the SSU had exposed in June this year.
The SSU Military Counterintelligence, under the personal coordination of the SSU Acting Head Oleksandr Poklad, has neutralised a large-scale spy network run by russian military intelligence (‘the GRU’). The aggressor state could have used the intelligence provided by the cell to launch missile strikes against Ukrainian Armed Forces airbases.
The Security Service of Ukraine has collected evidence against Oleksandr Shkorupat, who is an inspector at ‘penal colony No. 4 of the federal penitentiary service of the luhansk people’s republic (LNR) of russia’, located in the temporarily occupied town of Sukhodilsk in Luhansk region.
As part of the latest repatriation efforts, the remains of 261 of Ukraine’s fallen defenders have been returned to Ukraine.
Based on the evidence collected by the Security Service of Ukraine, an enemy agent who was exposed in July 2025 for carrying out arson attacks in Kyiv has been sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment and confiscation of property.
In collaboration with the Prosecutor General’s Office and with the support of the General Staff leadership, the Security Service has dismantled a large-scale mobilisation evasion scheme in Mykolaiv. As a result, the head of the regional Territorial Recruitment Centre has been detained for accepting bribes to help those liable for military service evade conscription.