The SBI probing some 1,500 cases of crimes against national security
The State Bureau of Investigation is running almost 1,500 criminal proceedings into crimes against national security.
Crime
Ukrainians among victims of trafficking ring exposed in Finland
As Finland’s prosecutors brought human trafficking charges against a group of individuals, Ukrainian nationals are named among those affected.
01 May 2023
Kharkiv man sentenced to five years for tipping Russians on Ukraine’s air defenses
A man from Kharkiv who is believed to have been giving Russian forces sensitive intelligence on the positions of air defense systems was sentenced to five years in prison.
SBU detains Russian informant who leaks data on defense of plants in Odesa region
In the Odesa region, the Security Service detained an employee of a local chemical plant who was passing information to Russia about the locations of the Defense Forces and industrial facilities in the region.
28 April 2023
Russian intelligence “Laundromat” for dirty money
Russian intelligence is not about a cold mind and a heart on fire, but about a paw that is constantly reaching for dirty money
26 April 2023
FBI working with U.S. firms to collect war crime evidence in Ukraine
Ukraine is working with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and American companies to collect evidence of war crimes by Russian forces, such as geolocation and cellphone information.
Court seizes UAH 1B of Oksana Marchenko's assets in Zaporizhzhia Ferroalloy Plant
The court seized UAH 1 billion of assets belonging to Oksana Marchenko, wife of former MP and leader of the banned in Ukraine party OPFL Viktor Medvedchuk, in Zaporizhzhia Ferroalloy Plant JSC.
25 April 2023
SBU nabs enemy artillery spotter in Donetsk region
As part of counter-subversive measures undertaken in the front-line areas of Donetsk region, the Security Service exposed a spotter for the Russian artillery who had been tipping the Russians on the locations of Ukraine’s military targets.
20 April 2023
SBU detains "fixer" working for Russian media outlet from Kyiv
The Security Service of Ukraine apprehended in Kyiv a Ukrainian man who helped the Russian Federation create and spread fake news on the war, including on the socio-political situation in the country’s capital.
17 April 2023
More than 130 traitors, collaborators convicted in Kharkiv region
More than 2,200 cases over collaborationism and high treason have been opened in Kharkiv region, court sentences have already been passed for 133 people.
14 April 2023
NABU claims new evidence in Naftogaz ex-CEO case found
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau justifies the need to continue investigating the case of former Naftogaz of Ukraine CEO Andriy Kobolyev by the appearance of new evidence - correspondence of persons involved in awarding him a bonus UAH 229 million.
Moldova sentences pro-Russian party chief to 15 years in prison
On Thursday, the Chisinau Court of Appeal sentenced the fugitive deputy leader of the Shor party, Ilan Shor, to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property worth 5 billion lei (over $270 million).
13 April 2023
U.S. law enforcement arrest man suspected to be involved in Pentagon leak - media
U.S. investigators have identified and apprehended a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman, who is believed to be the leader of a gaming online chat group in which publications of what’s alleged to be top secret Pentagon documents initially appeared.
FSB claims Ukrainian was involved in liquidation of “military blogger” Tatarsky
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has claimed that a Ukrainian citizen, Yuriy Denisov, was involved in the murder of "military correspondent" Vladlen Tatarsky and his associate Daria Trepova, and has managed to leave Russia.
12 April 2023
Facial recognition tool helps Ukraine identify war criminals
Border guards used Clearview AI facial recognition software to identify over 10,000 persons complicit in Russia’s war crimes.
11 April 2023
Ukraine puts on wanted list spouse of Putin’s political ally
The Security Service of Ukraine has declared wanted Oksana Marchenko, the wife of a pro-Russian politician, Viktor Medvedchuk, who was earlier tried on high treason charges before being given to Russia in a major POW swap effort.
Trials against pro-Russian propaganda pundits launched in Latvia
A series of trials against local journalists who collaborated with pro-Kremlin publications Sputnik and Baltnews is kicking off in the capital of Latvia, Riga.
SBU detains informer who collected data on defense of South Ukraine NPP
Ukraine's SBU State Security Service has exposed an informer of a Russian intelligence agency in the Mykolaiv region who was collecting intelligence on the locations and numbers of units of the Ukrainian defense forces guarding the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant.
09 April 2023
Ukraine court to try Mariupol school principal for treason
The high treason case against the principal of the Mariupol-based school, who sided with the occupiers and sealed a similar position in Russia-captured Berdiansk, was forwarded to court.
08 April 2023
Pro-Moscow church cleric on wanted list in Ukraine for assaulting veteran
Ukraine’s police have put on a wanted list subdeacon Ihor Slobodian of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), who is charged with assaulting Artur Ananiev, a war veteran, in the Holy Intercession Cathedral in Khmelnytskyi.
06 April 2023
Court seizes land of Medvedchuk's wife worth almost 17.5 million
Based on the SBU materials and in cooperation with the Lviv Regional Prosecutor's Office, the court seized two more land plots with real estate illegally owned by Oksana Marchenko. The total amount is almost UAH 17.5 million.
01 April 2023
Court places UOC MP Metropolitan Pavlo under house arrest for 60 days
The Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv has placed the abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Pavlo of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP) under round-the-clock house arrest for 60 days.
31 March 2023
Ukrainian court hands down first verdict in Crimea deportation case
The Ukrainian court passed the first sentence in a case of the deportation of the population from the temporarily occupied Crimea. A local "judge" who was involved in the deportation of Crimean residents from the temporarily occupied peninsula was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison.
30 March 2023
Ukraine calls on West to facilitate extradition of corrupt officials
Western partners can help Kyiv fight corruption by extraditing to Ukraine suspects in graft-related cases.
28 March 2023
Three more members of Russia’s spy network detained in Poland
The Internal Security Agency (ABW) of Poland over the past few days has identified and apprehended three more individuals believed to have been acting as part of a previously exposed Russian spy network.
Russian crimes in Ukraine: National Police opens nearly 68,800 cases
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the National Police has opened 68,781 criminal cases over the crimes committed by the Russians and their accomplices in Ukraine.
27 March 2023
Russian spies posing as "Argentine" couple detained in Slovenia
A couple using cover identities of Argentina nationals, recently arrested in Slovenia, turned out to be professional spies, known as “illegals,” that is, operating without a diplomatic cover under fake aliases, hired by Russia’s SVR Foreign Intelligence Service.
Court arrests multimillion grain theft scheme organizer
The High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine (HACC) has ruled to keep a grain theft scheme organizer in custody. The alternative is to release him on bail for almost UAH 2.7 million. The state lost millions of Ukrainian hryvnias due to this criminal operation.
21 March 2023
SBU presses charges against two organizers of sham referendum in Luhansk region
The Security Service of Ukraine exposed two more enemy collaborators in Luhansk region, who contributed to Russia's occupation of Ukrainian territories through taking part in the organization of a pseudo-referendum.