Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has said that the main task of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) should be the fight against corruption in Ukraine and has instructed the Security Service of Ukraine to prepare the plan of introduction of counterintelligence regime in Ukraine as soon as possible.
At a meeting of the SBU, the Ukrainian president named among the main tasks for the Security Service “the implementation of the system of measures for the establishment of the counterintelligence regime in the country,” the president’s press service reported on Dec. 29.
Poroshenko noted the importance of providing effective resistance to the Russian aggression and “its puppets from the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk people’s republics and “the creeping aggression that is spreading from Crimea.”
The president instructed the Security Service to develop a concept of establishing counterintelligence regime in Ukraine as soon as possible, the press service said.
Poroshenko also said that the main task of the Security Service of Ukraine should be the fight against corruption in Ukraine.
The president also stressed unprecedented and decisive steps by the SBU leadership in combating corruption in its ranks.
