So far West has refused sending weapons capable of attacking deep inside Russia for fear of wider conflict
Vasyl Malyuk, the head of Ukraine’s SBU security service, said the agency was “dealing a massive blow to the internal enemy. And this is clearly evidenced by large-scale searches, serving notices of suspicion and the arrest of criminals of various levels.”
Mr Avakov said his house was searched in connection with a helicopter crash near Kyiv last month that killed 14 people, including then interior minister Denis Monastyrsky and two of his senior deputies, but that “nothing of interest to the investigation was found”. People walk along a snow covered street in Bakhmut, in the Donetsk region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP
“The time when it was possible to rob the state with impunity and undermine its combat readiness has passed, and passed a long time ago. If someone still hasn’t figured it out, so much the worse for them,” said SBI chief Oleksiy Sukhachev.
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