The SBU: infiltrated by spies.

[Изумруд]

This is an interesting article, that partly explains one of the reasons why the initial Ukrainian response seemed so incompetent.  I also believe new recruits to such an important job should be getting paid a lot more than $200 pm.

http://mashable.com/2014/12/30/russian-vs-ukrainian-spies/#:eyJzIjoidCIsImkiOiJfdWcwMHZmczJoazRja3B0NSJ9

[Doll]

Christopher Miller
Christopher is Mashable's Senior Correspondent covering world news, particularly the post-Soviet space and especially Ukraine, where he has lived and worked for the past five years. He is a former editor of the Kyiv Post and has published with GlobalPost, The Telegraph, The Times, The Independent and others. Originally from rainy Portland, Oregon, he is also a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Ukraine).

[lordtiberius]

Doll, how many funerals have you attended of young boys coming back from Ukraine? 

[Shadow]

Doll, how many funerals have you attended of young boys coming back from Ukraine?

LT how many did  you attend?

[lordtiberius]

Shadow, are there Russian regulars dying in Ukraine or is this a civil war?  Tell us.

Doll, why so silent?

[Shadow]

Shadow, are there Russian regulars dying in Ukraine or is this a civil war?  Tell us.

Doll, why so silent?

Why can it not be both?
So how many funerals did you attend?

[lordtiberius]

What do you care Shadow when we just cease to be?

[fathertime]

What do you care Shadow when we just cease to be?

and what do you care, when the dead are now angels and breaking bread with baby Jesus in the sky?


Fathertime!   

[JayH]

While this story is not new--it is as current now as back then.Developments in the last few weeks show that Ukrainian bureaucracy and intelligence services still have a problem with long entrenched spies in the ranks.
Often the comments are still made about the non action of Ukrainian military over the invasion of Crimea- and the relatively slow response in eastern Ukraine.The issue of intelligence and military being hopelessly compromised at the time - and conflicted is the key to understanding events at that time. During 2014 when western countries were assessing how Ukraine could be helped it was the decision that any assistance would be so compromised that it could not have been decisive- a key point for western aid.
In the last 2 years--Ukraine has come a long way- and progress continues.Many of the old school types who came via the old Soviet system have been removed- and the process is ongoing.

Ukraine's top intelligence agency deeply infiltrated by Russian spies

KIEV, Ukraine – On a morning earlier this year, Ukraine’s top intelligence officials woke up to discover that the country's spy agency had been ransacked and torched by intruders who seemed to know what they were looking for.

The previous night, it turned out, the country’s pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, had ordered his operatives to steal a trove of state secrets from Ukraine's Security Service, known as the SBU, before fleeing to Moscow on Feb. 22.

During their raid on the spy agency, the thieves also stole data on more than 22,000 officers and informants as well as anything documenting decades of cooperation between the SBU and its Russian counterpart, the Federal Security Service, or FSB.

http://mashable.com/2014/12/30/russian-vs-ukrainian-spies/#cricUwzA9Zqk

Important steps-- cleaning out the traitors in the system.

Ukraine’s Deputy Chief of Staff was a Russian spy – Security Service
13 agents of Russian special services are under investigation in Ukraine. Among them is the ATO Deputy Chief of Staff, Colonel of the National Guard, an employee of the Department of Military personnel, a servicemen of the Armed Forces and others, according to a statement of the Ukrainian Security Service’s (SBU’s) press center on 16 June 2016.

Overall, 367 criminal cases have been opened based on SBU intelligence data during June 2015-May 2016. 76 of them are for state treason and three – for spying.
http://euromaidanpress.com/2016/06/18/ukraines-deputy-chief-of-staff-was-a-russian-spy/

http://euromaidanpress.com/2016/05/28/moscow-spy-services-said-deploying-russian-criminal-world-against-ukraine/