Editing Security Service of Ukraine (section)

=== 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine ===
[[File:UA SSU operator (1).jpg|thumb|SBU agent arresting a suspected Russian spy during the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]]]]
With the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]], the SBU started to conduct extensive [[counter-espionage]] against Russian intelligence services. The SBU captured [[Fifth column|fifth-columnists]], Russian sympathizers, collaborators, spies and infiltrators.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-29 |title=Ukraine cracks down on 'traitors' helping Russian troops |url=https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-europe-kharkiv-51c514b6dc9cc1f935e018e4877222cc |access-date=2022-06-03 |website=AP NEWS |language=en}}</ref> The SBU, with help of the American [[NSA]] and [[CIA]], also broke through the Russian encrypted cellphone services, intercepting phone calls to find valuable targets or other useful intelligence. [[List of Russian generals killed during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine|Several Russian generals died]] due to the intercepted calls.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bryen |first=Stephen |date=2022-05-26 |title=The fatal failure of Russia's ERA cryptophone system |url=https://asiatimes.com/2022/05/the-fatal-failure-of-russias-era-cryptophone-system/ |access-date=2022-06-03 |website=Asia Times |language=en-US}}</ref> They also published many supposed intercepted phone calls on their website, showing morale issues or admissions of [[war crimes]] by Russian troops.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vavra |first=Shannon |date=2022-05-09 |title=Russians Caught in Bitchfest Over Putin's 'Bullshit' Victory Day |language=en |work=The Daily Beast |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/intercepted-calls-catch-russians-slamming-vladimir-putins-bullshit-victory-day |access-date=2022-06-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Intercepted audio said Russian soldiers almost blew up a top general for ordering them to the front line, Ukraine says |url=https://ca.news.yahoo.com/intercepted-audio-shows-russian-soldiers-102055444.html |access-date=2022-06-03 |website=ca.news.yahoo.com |date=May 31, 2022 |language=en-CA}}</ref>

On March 5, 2022, SBU agents shot and killed [[Denis Kireev]], a member of Ukraine's negotiating delegation during the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]], while he was being arrested.<ref name="pravda-2022-Kireev">{{cite news |last1=Kravets |first1=Roman |title=The SBU shot a Ukrainian negotiator in Gomel during detention - sources |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2022/03/5/7328458/ |access-date=5 March 2022 |work=[[Ukrayinska Pravda]] |date=5 March 2022}}</ref> According to the SBU, Kireev was suspected of treason and was claimed to have clear evidence of him working for the enemy.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unian.net/politics/sbu-ubili-chlena-ukrainskoy-delegacii-denisa-kireeva-podozrevaemogo-v-gosizmene-novosti-ukraina-11730304.html|title=СБУ убила члена украинской делегации Дениса Киреева, подозреваемого в госизмене|website=UNIAN|date=5 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.interfax.ru/world/826552|title=Нардеп сообщил, что участника переговоров от Украины убили при задержании за госизмену|website=Interfax|date=5 March 2022}}</ref> However in August 18, later the [[Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine]] (GUR) disclosed the information that he was their agent and that he "died while performing special tasks" for the GUR.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Україна втратила своїх відданих синів |url=https://gur.gov.ua/content/ukraina-vtratyla-svoikh-viddanykh-syniv.html |access-date=2022-08-18 |website=gur.gov.ua}}</ref>

On April 12, 2022, the SBU announced they had arrested [[Viktor Medvedchuk]], an ally of [[Vladimir Putin]], in what Bakanov called a "a lightning-fast and dangerous multi-level special operation"; a treason case was opened against Medvedchuk the previous year and in February, and authorities said that Medvedchuk that escaped from house arrest.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-04-12 |title=Ukraine secret service says it has arrested top Putin ally |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-president-publishes-photo-pro-russian-politician-handcuffs-2022-04-12/ |access-date=2022-04-12}}</ref>

July 17, 2022, Head of the SBU [[Ivan Bakanov]] was dismissed by President [[Volodymyr Zelenskyy]].<ref name=":1" /> While a long-time associate and personal friend of Zelenskyy, Bakanov was accused of allowing treason and collaboration of SBU agents with Russia, and failing to uproot them.<ref>{{Cite web |first1=Tim |last1=Lister |first2=Mariya |last2=Knight |title=Zelensky fires top officials over staffers' 'collaboration' with Russia |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/17/europe/zelensky-fires-top-officials-intl/index.html |access-date=2022-07-18 |website=CNN|date=July 17, 2022 }}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=2022-07-18 |title=Ukraine names corruption department head as acting security agency chief |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-security-chief-prosecutor-general-suspended-senior-official-2022-07-18/ |access-date=2022-07-22}}</ref> [[Vasyl Malyuk]], the first Deputy Head of the SBU, was appointed as acting Head of the SBU.<ref name=":2" />

According to ''[[Ukrainska Pravda]]'' and the [[Ukrainian Independent Information Agency|UNIAN]], the [[2022 Crimean Bridge explosion|October 2022 Crimean Bridge explosion]] was carried out by the SBU.<ref name="PravdaSBU">{{Cite web |title=Security Service of Ukraine behind explosion on Crimean bridge |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/10/8/7370891/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221008135229/https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/10/8/7370891/ |archive-date=8 October 2022 |access-date=8 October 2022 |website=[[Ukrainska Pravda]] |language=en}}</ref><ref name="MeduzaSBU">{{Cite news |title=Украинские СМИ со ссылкой на источник сообщили, что взрыв на Крымском мосту – операция СБУ |trans-title=Ukrainian media, citing a source, reported that the explosion on the Crimean bridge was an SBU operation. |work=[[Meduza]] |url=https://meduza.io/news/2022/10/08/ukrainskaya-pravda-so-ssylkoy-na-istochnik-soobschila-chto-vzryv-na-krymskom-mostu-operatsiya-sbu |url-status=live |access-date=8 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221008150643/https://meduza.io/news/2022/10/08/ukrainskaya-pravda-so-ssylkoy-na-istochnik-soobschila-chto-vzryv-na-krymskom-mostu-operatsiya-sbu |archive-date=8 October 2022 |language=ru}}</ref>

On August 7, 2023, Ukrainian Security Service has arrested a woman in relation to an attempt to assassinate President [[Zelenskyy]]. The unnamed woman was accused of supplying information for a Russian air strike.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://abcnews.go.com/International/woman-arrested-plot-kill-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy-ukraine/story?id=102065597 |title= Woman arrested in plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine says |date=2023-08-07 |publisher=ABCnews|author1= Yulia Drozd|author2= Kevin Shalvey}}</ref>

On August 12, 2024, SBU alleged that Russia was attempting to falsely accuse Kyiv's military of committing war crimes, as Ukraine advanced with a ground incursion into Russia's Kursk region. Meanwhile, Russian state media reported that [[Alexei Smirnov (politician)|Alexei Smirnov]], accused Ukrainian forces of using chemical weapons. Smirnov also stated that Ukraine had seized control of 28 settlements in the region.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ukraine says Russia tries to accuse it of false war crimes in Kursk |date=12 August 2024 |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-russia-tries-accuse-it-false-war-crimes-kursk-2024-08-12/ |access-date=13 August 2024}}</ref>

==== Assassinations ====
SBU was connected to a number of targeted attacks on Russian military personnel and pro-Kremlin figures. Ukraine said it was behind the killing of a senior Russian naval officer in a car in Crimea. SBU said it was also responsible for the killing of a high-ranking officer in the GRU military intelligence service, who was assassinated outside his house in a village in the Moscow region.

Apart from military figures, Ukraine has targeted prominent Russian pro-war propagandists, including [[Darya Dugina]], daughter of an ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue [[Aleksandr Dugin]], who was killed in 2023 when a car bomb smashed her [[Toyota Land Cruiser]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-10-23 |title=Washington Post: Ukraine conducts 'high-value' assassinations inside Russia |url=https://kyivindependent.com/washington-post-sbu-behind-duginas-death-target-was-her-father/ |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=The Kyiv Independent |language=en}}</ref>

SBU said, it assassinated Mikhail Shatsky a leading Russian missile scientist who worked on upgrading cruise missiles used on the battlefield in Ukraine. His body of was discovered in Kuzminsky forest park, at [[Kotelniki]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |last=Sauer |first=Pjotr |date=2024-12-17 |title=Russian general in charge of chemical weapons unit killed in Moscow scooter blast |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/17/lieutenant-general-igor-kirillov-russian-general-killed-moscow-explosion-chemical-weapons |access-date=2024-12-17 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

In December 2024 the head of the Russian army’s chemical weapons division [[Igor Kirillov (officer)|Igor Kirillov]] was killed by an explosive device attached to a scooter outside an apartment building in Moscow. It was the most targeted assassination of a senior military official since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to Guardian.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ukraine says it killed Russian general Igor Kirillov in Moscow |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2ek388yxzo |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref name=":3" />

[[File:Standard of Ukrainian Security Service Head.png|thumb|Standard of the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine]]