From Agent Networks to Terror Attacks: Political Technologist Described the SBU's Counteraction to the Kremlin's Plans

The Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police have detained two men with prior convictions who are suspected of preparing a series of terrorist attacks against buildings of territorial defense centers in central Kyiv. According to the SBU, the defendants considered several attack methods, including the use of combat grenades, improvised explosive devices, and a grenade launcher.

This incident was commented on in a blog by political technologist Oleksiy Kurpas. He believes that Russia is attempting to use sabotage to destabilize Ukrainian cities, and that counterintelligence work helps prevent such threats.

How the SBU counters Russian sabotage

According to Kurpas, Russian special services seek to sow fear among Ukrainians and create a sense of danger even in cities far from the front line. In his view, such operations are an attempt to compensate for the lack of desired results on the battlefield.

Russia is trying to turn Ukrainian cities into arenas for terror. The enemy is recruiting criminals to attack regime facilities in central Kyiv, aiming to destabilize the situation inside the country, sow fear and provoke public tension, but the SBU's counterintelligence is successfully countering this,

— noted the political technologist.

Separately, he drew attention to the scale of the work of Ukrainian counterintelligence. Oleksiy Kurpas noted that since 2022 year the SBU had uncovered 150 agent networks, which included 648 individuals.

He also positively assessed the work of the SBU under the leadership of Oleksandr Poklad, emphasizing the importance of exposing agent networks and countering operations of Russian special services.

The public often learns about a successfully prevented terrorist act only from a brief SBU report. There is no explosion, no casualties, no frightening footage in the news. Thus, there is also no resonance that would occur in the event of a tragedy. Although its absence is precisely the main result of the work of the security services,

— Kurpas noted.

According to him, today the war is fought not only for territory but also for the resilience of Ukrainian society. On this front, every warned-off sabotage is not a small victory but a fully real one.