Ukraine
Zelensky reshapes its post-Avakov security apparatus

Ukraine
Kyiv reshuffle: military intelligence expertise to revitalise foreign spy agency

In the deep-set rivalry between Ukraine's powerful domestic and military intelligence services, the foreign agency had until now come off worse. Its new leadership, tasked with clearing out its ranks, might change that.

Ukraine
Agents from Kyiv's foreign intelligence service active on frontline

The discreet Ukrainian intelligence agency, the SZRU, is typically seen as a bureaucratic machine dedicated primarily to analysis production. It is, however, implicated on the ground.

The Agencies' Gazette
CIA acquisitions, Foreign Affairs Committee, Huawei in France, navy training centre, Moldova fights fake news, lustration in Ukraine

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week, we bring news from Washington, Kyiv, London, Brest, Paris and Chisinau.

United StatesLeadership change afoot in CIA acquisitions office

United KingdomForeign Affairs Committee learns from US intelligence consultants

FranceWhen the intelligence services reportedly tried to ban Huawei

FranceBrest navy intelligence training centre welcomes first pupils

MoldovaSandu protégé to run anti-disinformation centre

UkraineKyiv goes back on its lustration laws

Ukraine
Intelligence think tank Borysfen Intel starts new chapter based on founder's legacy

Two years after the death of its founder, who had led both the foreign and military intelligence services, Borysfen Intel is keeping his legacy alive with a new chairman and a fresh line-up.

Belarus, Ukraine
War in Ukraine: Kalinovsky Regiment aims to expand

The militia group opposed to Alexander Lukashenko, and which is backed by the Ukrainian military intelligence service, is attracting more and more members. Led by its two clandestine commanders, however, it is still locked in dispute with the other exiled Belarusian opposition factions.

Spotlight | France, Ukraine
French intelligence service kiboshes naturalisation of Ukrainian potential asset

Despite Paris's support for Kyiv, France's domestic intelligence service remains concerned about counter-espionage. France's refusal to grant citizenship to a Ukrainian professor, based on a note from the DGSI, shines a spotlight on the service's interests in Ukraine's State representations in the French capital.

France, Ukraine
Yermak and Shurma take charge of Ukraine's dealings with the French military-industrial complex

After several months of scepticism on Ukraine's part, French president Emmanuel Macron's visit to his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky could mark France's return to the front line in Ukraine. On the Ukrainian side, matters are being handled by Andriy Yermak with support from newcomer to the president's office, Rostyslav Shurma.

Ukraine
Kyiv seeks to align its forces in information warfare

In its fight against what it identifies as a hybrid war waged by its Russian neighbour, Ukraine is trying to bring together a series of organisations that were not previously well integrated. As such it is bringing together the fight against disinformation, the security of communication systems and the issue of sovereignty in the Donbass region.

France, Ukraine
Paris pays the price for Kyiv's ruthlessness towards Arsen Avakov

The French government will struggle to resurrect its hopes for military-industrial business opportunities in Kyiv with Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, determined to reduce the influence of the networks of former Interior minister Arsen Avakov, who was Paris's key liaison in the country.

Russia, Ukraine
SBU accuses FSB of masterminding Armageddon group 'cyber-occupation'

By blaming the Crimean FSB for the cyber attacks made by advanced persistent threat group Armageddon, the SBU is looking to sensitise its foreign partners to the threat it feels it is facing as a result of the invasion of its cyber space by Russia and its allies.

Ukraine
South Korean trader Hyen Chung targeted by Zelensky's sanctions

Head of a Singaporean commodities trading firm and well established in Ukraine, South Korean businessman Hyen Chung cuts an unusual figure among those targeted by Ukraine's recent sanctions.

Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Turkey navigates narrow strait between Ukrainian defence and Russian gas

Turkey has been on good terms with Ukraine for several years, particularly in defence, however it is too soon to break things off with Russia, one of its key gas suppliers.

Ukraine
Committee poised to appoint Ukraine's new economic intelligence chief

Anti-corruption chiefs and senior tax officials are vying to head Kyiv's new economic intelligence bureau, the BEB.

Ukraine
Kyiv still struggling to get up to speed in battle against fake news

After a period of feverish government activity which led to numerous reform initiatives, the day-to-day reality is setting in. Resources for activities which have been given priority status are sorely lacking, and this is particularly affecting efforts to set up new bodies to combat disinformation.

Ukraine
Kyiv's unborn economic security bureau caught in NABU-SBU feud

Ukraine's fledgling Bureau of Economic Security was billed as a stalwart against corruption. But its launch under Washington's watchful eye has been fraught with problems.

Ukraine
Intelligence turf battle rages over disinformation task force

According to our sources, the Ukrainian security services are squabbling over tutelage of a new anti-disinformation task force the government [...]