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Russia, Ukraine
Kyiv goes after FSB's mole recruitment unit

The Ukrainian intelligence services are keeping a very close eye on the actions of the FSB's operational information department, which has recruited several local operatives able to spread Russia's narrative within Ukraine.

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

The US and Ukraine are looking to provide a clearer framework for military supply deliveries and funding, with Washington seeking stronger guarantees from Kyiv on how funding and weapons are used.

Ukraine
Kyiv confirms space sector as a national security priority

The Ukrainian space agency could soon be classed alongside the defence ministry and the intelligence community as one of the basic guarantors of the country's national security. The Zelensky administration has long been pushing for this.

Russia, Ukraine
Russia and Ukraine expose each other's intelligence agents in their efforts to win propaganda war

The Russian and Ukrainian intelligence services are happy to showcase information about their own activities when they make arrests or score counter-intelligence successes but revealing the identities of the other side's intelligence agents is another well-tried weapon in their propaganda war.

Ukraine
Kyiv's patchwork of anti-disinformation initiatives struggles to unite

Kyiv has used extensive and highly targeted communication techniques to counter Russian narratives, but struggles to bring together a plethora of individual initiatives in the field. One of them has registered itself in Brussels, reportedly to try to influence EU thinking on the matter.

Ukraine
Ukrainian parliament gives priority to debate on military intelligence revamp

The large reform of Ukraine's SBU internal intelligence service, which has already been partly carried out, has been temporarily suspended because of the war with Moscow. Priority is now being given to some hard thinking about military intelligence reform.

Russia, Ukraine, Yemen
BND in Kyiv, Patrushev in Tatarstan, GUR, Yemen

Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets of news, big and small, from the global intelligence community. This week we hone in on Kyiv, Tatarstan and Yemen.

Ukraine
Kyiv engaged in intelligence legislation frenzy

The Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has been busy lately producing amendments and bills aimed at facilitating the army's operations. It is now poring over military counter-espionage.

Russia, Ukraine
Moscow's shifting security and political strategies in the Donbass

The heavy losses suffered by its armies in Donetsk and Luhansk are forcing Moscow to review its political and security roadmap for the territories.

Spotlight | Ukraine
YouControl and the SBU's TyHto puts counterintelligence within reach of every Ukrainian

The Ukrainian internal intelligence service is able to tap into the several hundred thousand user accounts of the new identity control application TyHto to flush out Russian and Belarusian enemies. Its developer, YouControl, is already thinking about export possibilities.

The Agencies' Gazette
Hamas in Turkey, GPIS in Paris, NATO in Georgia

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community from Paris to Tbilisi by Istanbul.

Palestine/Israel/Turkey: Ankara and Tel Aviv are talking againto Hamas's dismay

France GPIS, Paris's social housing security service provider, collects intelligence for the police

Georgia NATO's ex-liaison officer in Kyiv takes up residence in Tbilisi

Spotlight | Israel, Ukraine, United States
In war, Israeli cyber firms leave and US cyber firms land

Israeli cyber intelligence firms are pulling out of Ukraine while US companies such as the facial recognition firm Clearview are moving in.

United States
CIA rolls out well-oiled plan on familiar turf in Ukraine

Engrossed in Europe, US intelligence has increased its operations in Ukraine. It has considerable scope of action in the country forged from eight years of building relations with and providing support to its Ukrainian homologues.

Spotlight | Europe, Russia, Ukraine
Tallinn, rear base for Ukrainian cyber companies at war

Several of the local firms Kyiv has put to use on its cyber front line with Russia, such as Cyber Unit Technologies and Hacken, are registered in Estonia. The Ukrainian vice prime minister Mykhailo Fedorov is responsible for overseeing procedural and legal matters.