"The most valuable FSB agent": the media revealed new details

The former head of the SBU Department Oleg Kulinich, whom Ukrainian law enforcement officers detained in July 2022, had connections with representatives of special services of the Russian Federation. About it writes the British edition of The Sunday Times with reference to interlocutors in Ukrainian special services.

Journalists write that Kulinich had a good career in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), having gone from the operative to the head of the department, and later became a trusted assistant to one of the representatives of the pro -government party of Zelensky "Servant of the People". "Kulinich was the most valuable agent of the FSB of Russia in Ukraine. His activity can be compared with Kim Philby's activities, which destroyed Mi6 from the inside.

His position allowed him to access vital secret data on defense capabilities [Ukraine]," the unnamed high -ranking representative of Ukrainian counterintelligence told reporters. . The publication writes that thanks to its access to the nearest circle of the ruling party, Kulinich received the position of head of the SBU management in Crimea. Since 2020, the suspect began to destabilize the work of this SBU. "He destroyed their counterintelligence work.

In April 2021, he initiated large -scale anti -terrorist exercises in the Kherson region, where he identified weaknesses in the defense of Ukraine," one of the SBU officers said. Subsequently, it turned out that the suspect collected information about the movement of President Zelensky and handed it to the Russians. It was then that he came under the close supervision of the counterintelligence of the SBU, which was then headed by the current head of the intelligence service Vasyl Malyuk.

He noticed that Kulinich often traveled abroad simultaneously with Sivkovich, a former retired general who was hiding in the Russian Federation and had close contacts with local special services. For many years, Ukrainian intelligence officers followed Sivkovich, and then the track began with the ex -headman of the Crimean SBU.

"In January 2022, the British government called Sivkovich one of four former Ukrainian politicians who were in contact with Russian special services, and the United States imposed sanctions on him on the grounds that he" participated in the Russian Government -driven actions for destabilization of Ukraine, " The journalists write. in the region. He did not take measures to protect state sovereignty and violated orders, removed his employees to another region.

He even selected weapons from SBU staff, "one of the SBU employees told reporters. A week later, the Kulinich's invasion was released, and on July 16, 2022 he was detained The suspect denies his guilt, and in the case of his guilt he threatens up to 15 years in prison. The DBR reported the suspicion of a state of betrayal, the creation and management of the criminal community and the transfer of data in the Russian Federation.