Ukraine's new economic security bureau finds its feet while war rages on

• FRANCE/SYRIA - YPG representatives at the French National Assembly

• UKRAINE - Economic security office headless

• KYRGYZSTAN - Ex-spymaster on the rise in diplomatic corps
  

• US - Food security as well as agricultural sovereignty

Ukraine's economic security services under close scrutiny 

The Ukrainian government has discreetly launched a parliamentary inquiry into possible financial wrongdoing by officers in charge of economic security. A number of services - including internal intelligence, the SBU, and economic security, the BEB - will be probed.

Rosoboronexport suffers setbacks in Kubinka and Hanoi 

The Russian military equipment exporter, which has been hit by components shortages, has seen its global sales fall sharply. The latest blow has come from Vietnam, which has decided to freeze its dealings with the Russian group.

Kyiv reviews its intelligence services' counter-intelligence capacities 

Kyiv is drawing lessons from the first six months of its war with Russia, using the feedback it has received to gradually adapt the organisation of its intelligence effort, particularly its counter-espionage activities, to the needs thrown up by the conflict.

Special communications service to play central role in cyber counteroffensive 

Ukraine's State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection is to set up a centre dedicated to fighting cyberattacks. In the battle against Russian offensives, it will serve as a complement to Kyiv's cyber arsenal.

Kyiv remains determined to crack down on oligarchs despite war 

Faced with the EU, the UK and the US's good governance demands, the Ukrainian government is being very vocal about its determination to curb the influence of oligarchs in strategic sectors - and hunt down their assets by the same token.

Ukraine's anti-corruption prosecution office still without chief, much to Western chagrin 

Despite the insistence of its international partners - the US, the UE, the G7 and IMF - Ukraine's anti-corruption prosecution service, the SAPO, still has no one at the helm.

Chambers of commerce weigh up prospects for government's deoligarchisation drive  Free

The government in Kyiv is keen to offer foreign investors a sound business environment in Ukraine. To achieve this, it is counting on the deoligarchisation law which has just been adopted by parliament despite growing opposition.

Reform bill cuts into SBU's initial mandate  Free

The Ukrainian parliament is about to approve Volodymyr Zelensky's latest bill to reform the country's security service. This would strip the SBU of its mandate to police and investigate economic crimes, an assurance of good conduct for Ukraine's Western partners.

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.

Economic security bureau has difficult start 

On 22 March, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law [...]