Editing Security Service of Ukraine (section)

===Ukrainian security services in Soviet era ===
On January 14, 1918, the [[Ukrainian People's Republic]] founded its Security Services.<ref name="969SecSevUkr" />

In May 1918 the Department of the State Guard of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the [[Ukrainian State]] started to form a new intelligence service.<ref name="969SecSevUkr">{{in lang|uk}} [https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/28969341.html Ukrainian intelligence services. Victory and defeat of the last century], [[Radio Svoboda]] (January 14, 2018)</ref> This was a much more effective agency than its predecessor due to the incorporation of former employees of [[Okhrana]] (the secret police force of the [[Russian Empire]]).<ref name="969SecSevUkr" /> After the fall of the Ukrainian State and the return of power of the [[Ukrainian People's Republic]] (UNR) in December 1918, the new UNR authorities destroyed virtually all of the state infrastructure of the Ukrainian State.<ref name="969SecSevUkr" /> Therefore, the new secret services founded in January 1919 (with two divisions – domestic and foreign) had to start practically from scratch.<ref name="969SecSevUkr"/><ref name="SecSevUkrnev">{{in lang|uk}} [https://m.dt.ua/HISTORY/nevidimiy-front-specsluzhbi-chasiv-ukrayinskoyi-revolyuciyi-_.html "Invisible Front": Special Forces of the Times of the Ukrainian Revolution], m.dt.ua (November 26, 2018)</ref> It never became as well-led, nor as successful, as its forerunner, the security services of the Ukrainian State.<ref name="969SecSevUkr" /><ref name="SecSevUkrnev" /> The security services of the [[West Ukrainian People's Republic]] on the other hand were well-organized.<ref name="969SecSevUkr" /> The West Ukrainian People's Republic were formed in March 1919 as the Field Gendarmerie of the [[Ukrainian Galician Army]] (it also served as [[military police]]).<ref name="969SecSevUkr" /> There was no cooperation between the security services of the West Ukrainian People's Republic and Ukrainian People's Republic.<ref name="969SecSevUkr" />

In 1924, former (April–July 1919) head of intelligence of the Ukrainian People's Republic [[Mykola Chebotarov]] started intelligence work on his own initiative for the Ukrainian People's Republic [[government in exile]] on the territory of the [[Ukrainian SSR]].<ref name="cle1mw8t8html">[https://history.vn.ua/article1/mw8t8.html Summary on Military secret service of the state center of the UNR in the exile and its leaders (1926–1938 biennium)], history.vn.ua</ref>
[[File:СБУ 2017.jpg|left|thumb|SBU [[Alpha Group (Ukraine)|Alpha Group]] operators]]

The All-Ukrainian [[Cheka]] was formed on December 3, 1918, in [[Kursk]]<ref name="vuchk" /> on the initiative from [[Yakov Sverdlov]] and [[Lenin]]'s orders. The commission was formed on the decree of the [[Provisional Workers' and Peasants' Government of Ukraine]] and later adopted on May 30, 1919, by the [[All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee]]. To support the [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Soviet government in Ukraine]], in Moscow was formed a corps of special assignment with 24,500 soldiers as part of the All-Ukrainian Cheka. In spring 1919, there was created the Council in fight against counterrevolution and consisted of [[Adolph Joffe]], [[Stanislav Kosior]], and [[Martin Latsis]]. In its early years the security agency fought against the "kulak-nationalistic banditry"<ref name="Lek-AUCEC" /> (peasants who resisted having their land confiscated and being forced into collective farms). On August 19, 1920, the All-Ukrainian Cheka arrested all members of the [[All-Ukrainian Conference of Mensheviks]] after accusing them of counterrevolutionary activity.<ref name="Day100819" /> On December 10, 1934, the [[State Political Directorate]] of Ukraine was dissolved, becoming part of the [[NKVD]] of Ukraine.<ref name="vuchk" />