The Main Intelligence Directorate responded to SBU searches of one of its officers

The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense confirmed that searches were conducted on Friday, 6 November, at the home of one of the agency’s employees. A lawyer arrived at the scene.

The intelligence service emphasized that the agency is ready to facilitate an impartial investigation to establish all circumstances within the framework of current legislation. At the same time, a source in the MID noted that under part two of Article 35 of the Law of Ukraine "On Intelligence," any investigative actions concerning an active employee of an intelligence service must take place with the knowledge of and exclusively in the presence of authorized representatives of the intelligence agency. Unfortunately, that provision was not observed. What is known about the case The lawyer Masi Nayem reported the searches on the morning of 6 November. According to him, the SBU is conducting investigative actions against a MID employee in a "so-called Monaco case" (presumably referring to the case regarding the attempted attack on Ukrainian businessman Vadym Yermolayev in Monaco). Nayem also stated that investigators did not wait for the arrival of MID internal security representatives who, he said, were supposed to be present during such actions. The lawyer himself arrived at the scene. Recall that on 29 June 2026 a blast occurred near the entrance to a residential building in Monaco, injuring Ukrainian businessman Vadym Yermolayev. The investigation considered the main suspect in planting the explosive to be the 39-year-old Ukrainian Anastasiia Berezovska, who was wanted by Interpol. However, later Anastasiia Berezovska’s body with a gunshot wound to the head was found in a forest in the Kyiv region. In July, the National Police, the SBU, the MID, and the Office of the Prosecutor General reported the arrest of two men on suspicion of murdering the woman. According to the investigation’s version, they may also have been involved in the attack on the businessman.

Among those detained are MID officer Vladyslav Reut and former SBU officer Vitalii Zhykovych. In July a court placed both in pretrial detention without the option of bail.