Security Service comments on Ukrainian top official statement about Russia and spies
Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (Photo: Vitalii Nosach, RBC-Ukraine)
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) explained that the words of the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Oleksiy Danilov, about the alleged Russian spies in the SSU were incorrectly interpreted. In reality, this does not correspond to the truth, and Ukrainian special services regularly neutralize any attempts by the enemy to use hostile intelligence, SSU press service in a comment to RBC-Ukraine.
SSU clarification
"The counteraction to the attempts of enemy intelligence services to establish their espionage networks and destabilize the situation in Ukraine is one of the key directions of the SSU's activities. We record such manifestations and systematically and effectively neutralize the activities of those who intend to harm state security," stated the SSU.
The department reminded that during 2022-2023, the Security Service exposed over 2,000 traitors and identified over 300 agents of foreign intelligence services.
"Among those exposed are people's deputies Viktor Medvedchuk, Andriy Derkach, Oleksandr Ponomariov, Oleksandr Dubinsky, former head of the SSU Main Department in Crimea Oleh Kulinich, and others," the SSU noted.
Such results, in particular, were achieved due to the SSU strengthening its counterintelligence activities, changing personnel approaches to its work, and undergoing a process of internal cleansing emphasized in the special service.
"The Security Service of Ukraine neutralizes any attempts by Russian FSB and GRU to use their intelligence potential in wartime and does everything possible to eradicate enemy networks," summed up the press service's comment to the publication.
What Danilov said?
Recently, concerning the words of Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Oleksiy Danilov, in an interview with The Times, the media reported that Russia had allegedly intensified its spies in the SSU. Danilov later refuted these words, explaining that the publication had misunderstood him. He meant that the SSU "actively works on spies."
In turn, the SSU press service, in a comment to RBC-Ukraine, also emphasized that certain accents mentioned in the media today regarding the activation of the spy network within Ukrainian special services do not correspond to reality and are a manifestation of the incorrect interpretation of the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council head's words.
