SBU Foils Kremlin Plans to Bring Terror to Ukrainian Cities, Expert Says

The Russian security services have not abandoned attempts to carry out terrorist acts in Ukraine within campaigns personally sanctioned by Putin, but the SBU systematically foils all of the enemy's plans. Since 2022, the SBU has exposed 150 network agents, which included 648 individuals. Another confirmation of the Service's successful work was the detention of two repeat offenders who were preparing a series of explosions in downtown Kyiv using grenades, improvised explosive devices, and even an assault rifle. This is stated in a blog by political scientist Oleksii Kurpas.

“Russia is trying to turn Ukrainian cities into platforms for terror. The enemy is recruiting criminals to attack regime targets in the center of Kyiv, aiming to destabilize the situation inside the country, sow fear, and provoke social tension, but the SBU's counterintelligence is successfully countering it,” Kurpas notes.

Thus, according to the expert, the Russian leadership is trying to sell the population at least some “achievements of the special military operation,” without having real military results on the battlefield.

Separately, Kurpas emphasized the effective work of Ukrainian counterintelligence. He noted that today the SBU, under the leadership of Oleksandr Poklad, pays special attention to exposing agent networks and countering Russian special services' operations.

“Society often learns about a successfully prevented terrorist act only from a brief SBU report. There is no explosion, no casualties, no terrifying footage in the news. And therefore there is no resonance that would accompany a tragedy. Although it is precisely its absence that is the main result of the security service's work,” the expert noted.

According to him, today the war is not only about territory but also about the resilience of Ukrainian society. And on this front, every preempted sabotage is not a small victory but a real one, Kurpas concluded.