The SSU Counterintelligence and investigators disrupted fsb plans to liquidate the President of Ukraine and other members of the country's top military and political leadership. The plans were to be implemented by an agent network that was uncovered in advance by the Security Service of Ukraine with the assistance of the Department of the State Protection of Ukraine authorities. The network, whose activities were supervised by the fsb from moscow, included two colonels of the Department of the State Protection of Ukraine who «leaked» classified information to russia.