Former security official Viktor Yahun says Ukraine’s SBU agency has long been overly close to Russia’s FSB
The arrest of a high-ranking Ukrainian intelligence agent accused of spying forhas highlighted the urgent need for a cleanout of the country’s key security service, a former deputy head of the agency has said.
A photo issued alongside the official statement showed sim cards issued by Russian mobile carriers, bundles of foreign currency, a knuckle duster, two knives and a Russian language guide to learning English. Following Russia’s invasion on 24 February last year, more than 60 members of the SBU and the prosecutor general’s office had remained in occupied territory and collaborated with the Russian forces, highlighting the scale of the infiltration of Ukrainian law enforcement by the Kremlin.Photograph: SBU
Yahun said: “Kulinich and Naumov were at the top of the ranks and they had access to the most secret of information.”As late as 2010, Yahun said the SBU had internally celebrated KGB Day, marking the establishment of the communist-era Russian secret service, and there remained pro-Russian agents through the ranks of the service.
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