Spotlight | Ukraine, United States
Anti-corruption controls carried out on US weapons deliveries to Ukraine

The Intelligence Gazette
More OSINT for French embassies, Ukraine pushes for NATO import certification, security purge continues in Iraq, Chinese Communist Youth League lines up with Xi Jinping

Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week, we bring news from Paris, Kyiv, Baghdad and Beijing.

FranceFrench foreign ministry pushes for greater use of OSINT in French embassies

UkraineKyiv wants NATO 302 form for arms deliveries

IraqMohammed Al Sudani gets rid of Mustafa Al Kadhimi's faithful security ally

ChinaCommunist Youth League lines up with Xi Jinping

Belarus, Europe, Ukraine, United States
US lobbying giant APCO to help Ukraine-based initiative pushing for Kyiv and Minsk's EU integration

The US lobbying firm has been commissioned by a new Brussels-based NGO, Center for a European Future, to help prepare the ground for Minsk and Kyiv's EU integration. The think-tank is led by an experienced PR professional with strong ties in Ukraine but few contacts in Minsk.

Ukraine, United States
Ukrainian parliamentary national security committee helped by Republican friends in Washington

Ukraine's national security defence and intelligence committee, central to the inner workings of the government, has solid links with Republican representatives in Congress, although contacts have dwindled in more recent times.

Ukraine, United States
Gallant Knights ready to supply Kyiv with special forces training

A deal is near between private security firm Gallant Knights and Kyiv, through its ministry of digital transformation. It includes possible multi-year training in commando techniques.

Europe, Ukraine
Europe's Ukraine anti-corruption drive loses steam

Investigations by Ukraine's NABU anti-corruption bureau continue even amid the ongoing war, with enthusiastic backing from its partner countries - but a European data storage programme financed by Denmark has just been suspended.

Ukraine, United States
Inside Kyiv's lobbying push in Washington

Since the start of the conflict, Ukraine's strategic ministries have been working to influence US decision-makers and bolster its information war effort. This is keeping a dense network of PR-savvy Ukrainians in DC and American defence experts very busy.

United States
US's arms shipments to Ukraine putting pressure on CIA-Pentagon cooperation

The upscaling of military assistance to Ukraine is testing cooperation between the CIA and the US Department of Defense amid heightened fears about the fate of Western weapons.

Ukraine
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, United States
'Minor incursion' or not, US still leading light weapon deliveries to Kyiv

Even as the White House briefly took a more tempered pitch in the on-going trading of threats between the US and Russia over Ukraine, US aid, backed with new arms suppliers, continues to help Kyiv build up its defence.

Ukraine
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.

United States
White House's grand anti-corruption policy is boon to corporate intelligence firms

The latest anti-corruption guidelines from the White House have financial investigation firms champing at the bit.