2023-09-06 14:17:06
2023-09-06 22:17 Compiled by United Daily News Zhou Chenyang / Real-time report Ukrainian sniper profile photos.european news agency
Dozens of Russian officials and co-conspirators have been assassinated in Russian-occupied parts of the country and in Russia since the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but now even Ukraine’s former internal intelligence chief fears the assassination squads have gone too far.
According to reports, the former head of the Ukrainian National Security Service (SBU) and current MP Valentin Nalivaychenko (Valentin Nalivaychenko) told The Economist that the SBU has a special assassination plan to get rid of Russian co-conspirators.
According to reports, this special unit of the SBU dates back to at least 2015, after Russia annexed the Crimea and Udon-Donbas regions. According to Naliva Ichenko, who was the director of the SBU at the time, the leaders of Uzbekistan at the time decided that locking up the conspirators was not enough, so they organized this department from the elite Fifth Counterintelligence Agency. concluded that we need to eliminate these people”.
The Economist pointed out that this department has been linked to the assassination of several Udonist pro-Russian militia commanders. Insiders in the Ukrainian intelligence community also said that the Fifth Directorate of the SBU is currently playing a “central role” in operations against Russia and has carried out attacks such as the bombing of the Koch Bridge. The Ukrainian president “is known to authorize the most controversial actions,” while other decisions are often delegated.
However, several Ukrainian insiders interviewed admitted that they were not happy about targeting “intermediate” targets. “It makes me uncomfortable,” said an SBU counterintelligence source.
Targeting mid-level propagandists or relatively unimportant figures in the Russian intelligence and political establishment is sometimes an attempt to impress the Ukrainian president, not win a war, said the former SBU Fifth Directorate intelligence officer. Whores, courtiers and jesters are a constant around the Russian state, kill one of them and the other will take their place”.
Nalivaychenko said he was concerned that the assassination on the Ukrainian side appeared to be driven by “impulse rather than logic”. While some assassinations have been justified, others have been hesitant, and recent missions have posed considerable danger to Ukrainian intelligence agencies, in some cases lacking strategy or endangering agents and their sources.
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