Six months after the arrest of the SBU officer in charge of Crimea, he was officially charged with the loss of the Kherson region

Oleg Kulinich, the former head of the SBU department that oversaw Crimea, was declared the main culprit for the fact that in the spring of 2022, Russian troops were able to occupy most of the Kherson region, going on the offensive from Crimea (thus thwarting the plans for an attack on the peninsula that were being prepared in Kyiv).

As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, Kulinich is accused of treason, which was announced today at a specially convened press conference in Kyiv.

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It is alleged that Kulinich, being a graduate of the KGB school, retained contacts and secretly worked for Russia. He is accused that on the eve of the special operation he knew about the entry of Russian troops into Ukraine, but did not warn the Kiev leadership about this.

_{(A very controversial statement, if you remember that a month before the start of the SVO, all Ukrainian media wrote about the “Russian invasion”, which would inevitably begin any day now).}

The SBI today in Kyiv unveiled a scheme according to which Kulinich collaborated with Russia - through a certain office in Moscow, which was coordinated by the former head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine during the time of Viktor Yanukovych, Andrey Klyuchev:

 “It has been established that Oleg Kulinich was attracted by representatives of the FSB of the Russian Federation to secret cooperation and even received the operational pseudonym “Katigoroshko.” On the instructions of the FSB of the Russian Federation, ex-Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Vladimir Sivkovich, a former officer of the KGB of the USSR, and former head of the presidential administration of Ukraine Andrei Klyuchev, who have been hiding from justice in Moscow since 2014, created a so-called political office to monitor the activities of influential Ukrainian politicians, senior officials and law enforcement officers."

The SBU also published a recording of the conversation between Kulinich and Sivkovich, which should convince that Kulinich knew about the upcoming offensive and was preparing his cadres for the leadership of the Ukrainian special services.

“We have very little time, I’ll tell you. There, for a couple of months, realistically, during these two months you need to quickly cram people in and then build the structure at the RNBO, otherwise it won’t fly,” says a person signed as Vladimir Sivkovich in the recording.

In addition, Kulinich, according to the investigation, lobbied for the appointment of Andrei Naumov as the first deputy head of the SBU. Now Naumov is detained in Serbia, and Ukraine demands his extradition:

“The investigation established that the official knew in advance about the Russian Federation’s plans to attack Ukraine from the temporarily occupied Crimea, but deliberately hid this extremely important information from the leadership and forbade sending any documentation on this matter to the central office of the SBU.

In the first hours of the invasion, he deliberately blocked any attempts to notify the leadership of the SBU and society about the real situation in the region, did not take any measures to protect state sovereignty, and ordered the personnel to leave their place of duty.

Later, he issued standard weapons to people who had nothing to do with the Security Service of Ukraine,” said SBI speaker Tatyana Sapyan.

Let us remind you that Oleg Kulinich was removed from office in March last year, and was detained in Kyiv in July (quite strange for a “Putin agent” to leave specially surrendered Kherson and go to Kiev, don’t you think?).

When Kulinich was detained, the deputy head of the SBU, and now the head of the department, Vasily Malyuk, was present.

As PolitNavigator wrote:, it is obvious that between March and July, Kulinich’s former colleagues from Directorate “D”, together with the State Bureau of Investigation, intensively searched for evidence of his guilt in the treason charged against him.