Ukraine
Kyiv's unborn economic security bureau caught in NABU-SBU feud

Ukraine
Ukraine's economic intelligence service struggles to reform

Life for the Economic Security Bureau has been turbulent and controversial since its creation in 2021. Its future remains uncertain and Ukraine's allies are stepping up pressure for change.

Ukraine
Complaints rain down on Ukraine's economic intelligence service

Criticisms of Kyiv's economic security office, the BEB, have been flying in thick and fast. A parliamentary investigation continues to reveal cracks within the service, even as it signs on new partnerships with foreign services.

The Intelligence Gazette
Syrian Kurds at French National Assembly, Kyrgyz diplomacy, Ukrainian BEB, US farm security

Appointments, reforms and key issues: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community.

France/SyriaYPG representatives at the French National Assembly

UkraineEconomic security office headless

KyrgyzstanEx-spymaster on the rise in diplomatic corps

USFood security as well as agricultural sovereignty

Belarus, Europe, Ukraine, United States
US lobbying giant APCO to help Ukraine-based initiative pushing for Kyiv and Minsk's EU integration

The US lobbying firm has been commissioned by a new Brussels-based NGO, Center for a European Future, to help prepare the ground for Minsk and Kyiv's EU integration. The think-tank is led by an experienced PR professional with strong ties in Ukraine but few contacts in Minsk.

Ukraine
Nassonov and Pechenizhky, EU and NATO event planners in war-torn Ukraine

Amid the turmoil of war, a group of Ukrainian entrepreneurs are finding caterers and concierge services, and organising summits and conferences, for international organisations in Kyiv.

Ukraine
Ukraine's economic security services under close scrutiny

The Ukrainian government has discreetly launched a parliamentary inquiry into possible financial wrongdoing by officers in charge of economic security. A number of services - including internal intelligence, the SBU, and economic security, the BEB - will be probed.

Europe, Ukraine
Europe's Ukraine anti-corruption drive loses steam

Investigations by Ukraine's NABU anti-corruption bureau continue even amid the ongoing war, with enthusiastic backing from its partner countries - but a European data storage programme financed by Denmark has just been suspended.

Ukraine
Ukraine's new economic security bureau finds its feet while war rages on

Ukraine's investigation and economic intelligence entity, which is heavily mobilised in the war, is gradually establishing its place in Ukraine's security architecture and trying to respond to donor countries' demands for greater transparency and stronger measures against corruption.

Ukraine
Ukraine presidency ally holds cards in naming new anti-corruption chiefs

The leadership of the corruption-fighting arsenal in Kyiv rests in the hands of the new chief prosecutor, Oleksi Simonenko. A former SBU intelligence officer, his close connections within the presidency have made him a rising star in the war-stricken country's leadership.

Ukraine
Ukraine's anti-corruption prosecution office still without chief, much to Western chagrin

Despite the insistence of its international partners - the US, the UE, the G7 and IMF - Ukraine's anti-corruption prosecution service, the SAPO, still has no one at the helm.

Ukraine
Committee poised to appoint Ukraine's new economic intelligence chief

Anti-corruption chiefs and senior tax officials are vying to head Kyiv's new economic intelligence bureau, the BEB.

Ukraine, United States
Army of US consultants weigh in on Ukrainian privatisations

The Ukrainian government is poised to sell off everything from distilleries to electricity plants in a major privitisation drive, with the help of Western-trained experts.

Ukraine
Kyiv still struggling to get up to speed in battle against fake news

After a period of feverish government activity which led to numerous reform initiatives, the day-to-day reality is setting in. Resources for activities which have been given priority status are sorely lacking, and this is particularly affecting efforts to set up new bodies to combat disinformation.

France, Ukraine
Zelensky eyes spy satellite

According to our sources, the Ukrainian defence ministry has entered talks with the French government about procuring a military observation [...]

France
CEIS on the roads of territorial intelligence

The company is expanding its activities in this growing market, driven by increasing demand from mostly local, but also national authorities.

Ukraine
SBU takes on private military company DBC, linked to both Kolomoisky and Saakashvili

Ukraine's internal security service, the SBU, which conducted raids on 24 March as part of a months-long investigation, suspects two men, Yevgen Shevchenko and Semen Semenchenko, "created a paramilitary organisation". Shevchenko is close to anti-corruption unit and the SBU's rival, NABU.

Spotlight | France, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States
Zelensky's navy on fast track to NATO-compatibility

The embryonic Ukrainian navy was not invited to participate in NATO's Sea Shield naval exercise in the Black Sea, which ended on 29 March. But, given the latest military contracts handed out by Kiev, its ships should soon be compatible with those of the alliance.

Ukraine
Economic security bureau has difficult start

On 22 March, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law [...]

Georgia, Ukraine, United States
Pro-Western parties in Kiev and Tbilisi look to build ties with Washington

Ukrainian and Georgian partisans of a rapprochement with the West are hoping they can make headway now that Biden is in the White House. However times have changed since the 2000s, when membership of NATO still seemed possible.

Ukraine
By targeting media moguls Kozak and Medvedchuk, SBU clears the path for Kolomoisky

With SBU-backed proof in hand, Kiev shut down Taras Kozak's television channels in early February. The decision, backed by the US embassy and pro-West media outlets, shows that Igor Kolomoisky has snatched back the title as Ukraine's top media mogul from his rival Viktor Medvedchuk.

Ukraine
Zelensky pursues vengeance against former SBU chief

Vasyl Gritsak, the former head of the SBU, Ukraine's intelligence [...]

European Union, United States
Anti-corruption consultants at front line in Ukraine

Western nations are taking it in turns to tackle corruption in Ukraine, officially to consolidate the country's institutions but also to uncover the financial circuits of pro-Russian oligarchs.