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The activist pointed to a striking difference in the activities of the service’s combat and rear wings.
Anonymous Telegram channels operating under the cover of the Security Service of Ukraine are promoting People's Deputy Oleksiy Honcharenko, who last week stated that “Ukraine is losing the war,” so “we need to negotiate.” This trend was noted by the head of the Board of the Anti-Corruption Center, Vitaliy Shabunin.
"While the combat wing of the SBU kills and dies at war, the rear/corrupt part of the Service flushes their sacrifices and heroism down the toilet. I find it hard to imagine anything more disgusting than the actions of Duka, Kravchuk and other Vityuks from the rear/corrupt wing of the SBU," Shabunin wrote and addressed acting SBU head Oleksandr Poklad asking how he would deal with this.
The activist added that this state of affairs once again proves the need to reform the Security Service of Ukraine.
Already in the winter, People's Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak stated that the owners of popular anonymous Telegram channels are protected by the SBU. In addition, some owners of such resources turned out to be exempted from mobilization precisely by the Security Service.
According to Shabunin, this cover for Telegram channels is overseen by SBU General Serhiy Duka — First Deputy Head of the Department for the Protection of National Statehood, who previously worked in the liquidated Directorate “K.” He names him as one of the key organizers of the attack on the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine in the summer of 2025.
Last year the Anti-Corruption Center published an investigation that his father-in-law and mother-in-law hold Russian passports, and Duka’s wife has a stake in a business in the occupied territory that is officially registered in the Russian Federation.
The scandal around People's Deputy Oleksiy Honcharenko erupted last week when he published a column in Ukrainska Pravda titled "Honcharenko’s peace plan: how to stop the war step by step" and a number of posts on his Telegram channel. In those texts he stated that Ukraine "is losing the war," so it is necessary to negotiate and to "ourselves advocate lifting sanctions on Russia in exchange for stopping any long-range strikes, unblocking the Black Sea and limiting hostilities to a section of the front in Donbas," and more generally to "negotiate wherever possible." At the same time, he claims that “to negotiate” “does not mean to capitulate.”
His position provoked a negative reaction within the European Solidarity party and, ultimately, he was expelled from the party faction in the Verkhovna Rada. Without naming the deputy, they stated that "peace cannot mean the capitulation of Ukrainian statehood and identity," and "peace is Ukraine that after the war remains strong, armed, democratic, European and Ukrainian. With its army. With its language. With its faith."
After his expulsion from the faction, the deputy himself said that "a divorce had been brewing, and we all know it." According to him, he still supports many of the party’s views, but “fundamental differences have emerged.”
In a comment to LIGA.net, one member of the faction said that after the break with European Solidarity, Honcharenko is preparing his own political project and seeks to poach voters from Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Telegram-канали з прикриттям СБУ просувають заяви Гончаренка про «необхідність домовлятись» — Шабунін". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: ZN.ua.
