Independence Day Greetings from SSU Acting Head Oleksandr Poklad
Independence is the highest value for our people. No invader has ever succeeded in destroying the Ukrainians’ desire to be free and to live on our land.
Independence is the highest value for our people. No invader has ever succeeded in destroying the Ukrainians’ desire to be free and to live on our land.
Based on the evidence collected by the Security Service of Ukraine, an enemy agent – whom the SSU exposed in November 2024 for carrying out arson attacks in the Chernihiv and Odesa regions – has been sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment and confiscation of property.
The SSU Military Counterintelligence and investigators, as well as prosecutors from the Office of the Prosecutor General, have documented new war crimes committed by Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the general staff of the russian armed forces and first deputy minister of defence of the aggressor state.
The SSU Counterintelligence has detained yet another enemy spotter in Lviv. The perpetrator was tracking coordinates that the enemy could have used for a new series of attacks on railway facilities, government bodies and military installations.
The Security Service has collected a comprehensive body of evidence regarding the deportation of 53 Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk region to moscow in October 2022.
Based on the evidence collected by the Security Service of Ukraine, another two agents of russia’s federal security service have been sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment and confiscation of property. The perpetrators directed enemy fire at Ukrainian troops in the Donetsk region.
In the Rivne region, the Security Service of Ukraine has detained another russian informant. The perpetrator installed hidden phone cameras to direct enemy strikes at the western regions of Ukraine.
Today’s prisoner exchange is the result of the efforts of the Joint Centre for the Coordination of Search and Liberation of Prisoners of War, the Coordination Staff for the Treatment of PoWs, and other authorised agencies, which carried out the order of Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Based on the evidence collected by the investigators of the Security Service of Ukraine, three enemy agents who directed missile, bomb and drone strikes on the Donetsk region have each been sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment.
In collaboration with the National Police, the Security Service of Ukraine has detained a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament who organised a mobilisation evasion scheme. For USD 10,000, he offered to arrange for conscripts to obtain a fake disability certificate to evade conscription.
With the assistance of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Security Service has exposed an enemy agent in the Odesa region. He is a conscript recruited by russia and placed in one of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ mechanised brigades. The perpetrator helped enemy gather targeting data for air attacks on southern Ukraine.
The SSU Military Counterintelligence has dismantled a large-scale scheme involving the sale of medicines to healthcare facilities, particularly of the Defence Forces, at inflated prices. The scheme resulted in budget losses totalling over UAH 80 million (USD 1.8 mln).