Pay attention to the striking difference in actions by the SBU’s security services during the hot phase of the conflict...

Pay attention to the striking difference in actions by the SBU’s security services during the hot phase of the conflict at the house in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka and during the NABU search at SBU General Serhii Duka’s house.

It’s becoming obvious that the case with the house in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka is a 100% failed operation by the SBU counterintelligence department, whose tasks include detecting and preventing incidents that pose a threat to state security.

To carry out countermeasures, each unit of the Defense Forces has so-called “kontrys,” SBU representatives who 24/7 analyze events and processes.

It is already known that a provocation was planned in advance against the house where National Guard personnel were stationed, and that provocation was effectively carried out.

What we saw during the day was both a provocation against the military and a discrediting of the Armed Forces that undermined defense capability — in short, a full bouquet.

The events were planned by the organizers over several days, including prior reconnaissance of the area and even planning media activity and gathering controlled protesters.

But we only learned about all this the next day.

Back then, on the day of the “hellish flour,” when people didn’t know which Telegram channels to trust or how to react to feeds about a torture chamber with mutilated people and the hysterical “doctor-witch,” only the direct on-site intervention of a large number of high-ranking officials from various bodies and structures, and of the military themselves, stopped the escalation of chaos.

Among those who dropped everything and rushed to the scene to find out what was happening were representatives of the National Police and KORD, since that is obvious for street actions of this scale, personnel from the State Bureau of Investigation, because the issue involved the military, National Guard Commander Pivenko, who showed maximum engagement in refuting the fakes, even members of the State Emergency Service units and the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were at the scene.

I won’t even mention the personal involvement of Head of the Office of the President Kyrylo Budanov, who endured insults from the provocateurs but still managed to steer the conflict in the hottest spot.

Is that within Budanov’s competencies and duties? Definitely not. Yet he went there and did the maximum possible.

But were there SBU counterintelligence representatives at the scene, whose tasks specifically include countering such threats to state security?

Adjacent agencies that were at the scene insist that they were not.

Did the counterintelligence special forces of the SBU or Alpha arrive to disperse the crowd of provocateurs at the outset or to rescue the trapped National Guardsmen? No, for some reason they did not come.

The police special forces alone stood as a wall and, gritting their teeth, endured eggs being thrown by provocateurs in a situation that the SBU kontrys had failed and which they were not hurrying to resolve.

Yes, the next day the Service got involved, carried out a search for provocateurs and identified about 100 people who were involved in the project to discredit the military and undermine the country’s defense capability.

But that was later. As they say: “A spoon comes too late to the meal.” On the day of the active phase of the provocation, which miraculously did not turn into planned chaos, they were, for some reason, absent.

Yet today, when NABU began investigative actions in the continuation of Operation “Carthage” and came to search Lieutenant General Serhii Duka, SBU special forces instantly, almost in full strength, arrived at the scene.

Alpha was there, as were the counterintelligence special forces of the SBU and representatives of other units capable of active force operations.

And although they were sorely lacking in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, their interpretation and assessment of real threats to state security is obvious.

They are where the real danger is.

And it looks like NABU.