EXCLUSIVE: CIA Worked With SBU to Root Out Russian Spies

The former Director of Ukraine’s intelligence service opened up with Kyiv Post about how Ukraine’s intelligence services were reborn thanks to America’s assistance.
by Jason Jay Smart | February 26, 2024, 6:18 pm | Comments (2)
What other ways did America play a role in helping Ukrainian intelligence to get back on its feet?

Quickly we began training with our American partners to build up a new counterintelligence force in Ukraine – something that we accomplished within a few months.

Quickly, new counterintelligence was deployed, by my order, to Kherson and to areas being targeted by Russia, where we successfully captured enemies of high intelligence value, including Russian GRU and FSB officers.

Was it effective? [NOTE: Russia began its invasion of Ukrainian Crimea and Donbas shortly after the Revolution of Dignity.]

Our new counterintelligence officers began detecting and regularly capturing even more Russian intelligence assets. No time was lost – it was immediately effective.

We sent information daily,to the United Nations headquarters in New York about Russia’s crimes and their officers, whom we had detained, and were documenting what they said. Additionally, we provided the documents, in English, to the US government, CIA, US State Department, from the very first days.

So what is the first step when building strong relations between intelligence services?