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SBU versus HUR: conflict between Ukraine’s security services

The Centre for Eastern Studies

On 3 September, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the dismissal of deputy heads of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (HUR). The decision came in response to an incident in Kyiv in which SBU officers used firearms against HUR personnel. The confrontation stemmed from SBU action targeting Stepan Kaplunov, deputy commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), which operates under HUR structures. …read more

Source:: Centre for Eastern Studies (Poland)

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