SSU exposes 11 agent networks since beginning of 2024 - Maliuk
According to Censor.NET, this was announced by the Head of the SSU Vasyl Maliuk during a speech at the Congress of Local and Regional Councils under the President of Ukraine.
"Today, the SSU manages to work proactively. First of all, it is due to systematic and new counterintelligence approaches. Because we do not detain a single traitor, but, as a rule, we unwind the entire chain. In total, in 2023, the SSU exposed 47 agent networks, all the villains were detained, and since the beginning of this year, 11 more have been exposed," Maliuk said.
Thus, the special service counteracts enemy penetration of critical infrastructure facilities, including through cyberspace. It also blocks attempts to reconnoiter international aid routes, locations of defence industry enterprises, etc.
For example, the SSU recently detained an FSB agent in Dnipro who was taking photos and videos of a local thermal power plant and preparing enemy missile strikes, a former police officer in Zaporizhzhia who was monitoring defence industry facilities, and several Ukrzaliznytsia employees who were providing information to the enemy on the logistics of weapons and munitions movement.
"We have a clear task from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy: to prevent any challenges. And we are fulfilling it to protect the lives of citizens and state security," the SSU Head emphasised.
