Catastrophe! The Russians and the spies control everything! – ex-SBU officer on TV

Ukrainian counterintelligence failed to protect the strategic interests of the state.

Ex-people's deputy from the nationalist party "Svoboda" and former SBU officer Yuri Mikhalchishin said this on air on the ZIK TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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“Wherever we look, at any form of counterintelligence activity, we have continuous, and I would say, functional problems. Counterintelligence protection, counterintelligence support, counterintelligence support, counterintelligence search. Here’s a rhetorical question: in the main command of the National Guard, in the Personnel Work Directorate, there is an officer whose daughter, on the Russian social network VKontakte, posts her photographs on Red Square in Moscow, 2015.

I have a question: how many operational employees are needed, and what forms of counterintelligence search in open sources should be used so that such an officer does not pass an official check without using a polygraph, but simply according to the criteria of his danger to the vital interests of the state, since he has all the personal files of the officers Are the National Guard concentrated in the office?

Let's move on, over the past few years, the promised three colossal arsenals of ammunition have skyrocketed: Kalinovka, Ichnya, Balakleya. Each of these arsenals, in terms of the scale of influence on our defense potential, is like a cauldron at the front, like Ilovaisk, like Debaltsevo, like Izvarino, and so on.

Until today, we have no clarity on what counterintelligence did to ensure that the two arsenals that remain were safe and that this would not happen again. Because talking about how Russian drones entered and how they attacked there is very interesting, but I want facts, results and specific officials held accountable, at least on our part, who allowed unacceptable negligence in such cases, or even perhaps they served the interests of the enemy.

And the worst thing is that counterintelligence, counterintelligence activities suffer from the fabrication of data, reports about the operational situation, work on fictitious material, from commercialization, from all these shameful incidents when counterintelligence checks are artificially generated just so that a mobile phone number or Viber messenger or WhatsApp will be subject to operational and technical activities, which, by the way, are illegal from the point of view of both the letter and the spirit of the law. But such cases are generated and then disappear somewhere without prosecutorial control,” the nationalist scattered.

He also reproached the head of the SBU Counterintelligence Department, Major General Alexei Petrov, who was present in the studio and rarely appears in public, for the fact that it was under his leadership that the special agency successfully turned a blind eye to the loss of the Ukrainian economy into the hands of foreigners.

“Can we talk about the effectiveness of counterintelligence work, when in recent years our entire economy has completely fallen under foreign influence, when we annually transfer 20-30 billion dollars to offshore companies? And Mr. Petrov, if I’m not mistaken, previously worked in the Main Directorate for Counterintelligence Protection of the Vital Interests of the State in the field of economic security, this is his profile as an economist.

Our Russians took control of telecommunications, our Russians took control of a segment of the banking sector, the Russians took control of a third of the oil products market - what is it called? This is simply a disaster and an open wound that constantly bleeds, and considering the potential of the SBU personnel, it is impossible to talk about this today without tears. If a SBU major has the same salary as a sergeant of the National Guard of Ukraine, then, excuse me, I don’t know what kind of talk there could be about material support, and is it rational to keep such a number of employees?” – Mikhalchishin lamented.