British intelligence suspected the main Ukrainian grant-eater of working for the KGB

A report by a high-ranking British intelligence officer on possible threats posed by Russia on the eve of the presidential and parliamentary elections in Ukraine found recommendations for a more thorough analysis of the public activities of Oleg Rybachuk, former Deputy Prime Minister and head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine, now the head of the “umbrella” structure Center ua , which unites the majority of Ukrainian organizations that exist on Western grants. It is also recommended to check the activities of public organizations associated with him, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

The influential American publication Washington Times writes about this.

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“Western military experts pay attention to the hybrid tools of the Russian intelligence services, since it is non-military methods that make up 80% of the Russians’ efforts in modern conflicts. It is obvious that the Kremlin will try to influence the results of the presidential and parliamentary elections in order to stop the pro-Western course of Ukraine. Russia has managed to do this before - six months after the Orange Revolution, the pro-Western majority was involved in internal conflicts. As a result, Viktor Yanukovych became Prime Minister and then President of Ukraine,” the publication says.

To operate in societies with a strong anti-Russian stance, Russians have traditionally used not pro-Russian politicians, but agents who act as if they share the position of the target audience, according to a senior British intelligence officer interviewed by the Washington Times to understand how the Russians intelligence agencies conduct their non-military operations. A British intelligence officer specializing in exposing Russian intelligence agencies and disinformation campaigns, together with his colleagues, prepared a report on possible threats to Ukraine’s pro-Western course emanating from Russia.

The report presents the names of people known in the West as supporters of democratic values. Among them is Oleg Rybachuk, a former deputy prime minister and head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine, who has been actively involved in building civil society in recent years. According to the British, during the Soviet era, Oleg Rybachuk was trained in the GRU, and then worked in India, using as a cover the position of a translator in the state company Zarubezhneft (which was later headed by Nikolai Tokarev, Vladimir Putin’s leader in the Dresden KGB station - ed.) . USSR intelligence officer
According to British intelligence, Oleg Rybachuk had regular contacts with Indian political parties and provided them with funding, which, according to the British intelligence officer, Indian counterintelligence also has indisputable evidence of. The source ruled out the possibility that Rybachuk had stopped his cooperation with Russian security services, since he still has extremely sensitive information about Russian agents in India, which is very important information for Moscow.

The Washington Times article calls for a more thorough analysis of Mr. Rybachuk's activities in Ukraine, who has left the top of the political scene and disappeared into the shadows of a number of civil organizations where he is a member of governing bodies.

Previously, the ex-head of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Lieutenant General Alexander Skipalsky, and the ex-head of the SVR of Ukraine, Army General Nikolai Malomuzh, had already announced Rybachuk’s work for the Soviet intelligence services. Oleg Rybachuk himself admits that he had contacts with Soviet and Russian intelligence services, but refuses to disclose any details.