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Drones
Russia Claims to Have Killed Ukraine-Linked Saboteurs
The FSB claims that it had killed two alleged saboteurs ordered by Ukraine to carry out a drone attack on a Russian petrochemical plant.
April 24, 2025
Odesa
Woman Arrested in Odesa for Targeting Russian Airstrikes on Ukrainian Marines
Kyiv’s security services said the woman had been tasked to pinpoint the locations of the marines, border guards, and police officers in southern Ukraine.
March 24, 2025
War in Ukraine
Spook Who Gave Putin Intel That Led to Ukraine Invasion Part of Russia’s Negotiating Team
Sergei Beseda the former head of Russia’s FSB Fifth Service, which briefed the Kremlin ahead of the 2022 full-scale invasion, is part of the team for negotiations with the US on March 24 in Riyadh.
March 20, 2025
Drones
FSB Alleges Ukraine Mailed Explosives as Perfume to Military Officials – Kyiv Intel Denies It
Ukrainian intelligence denies sending exploding perfumes to Russian military. Acknowledges sending exploding goggles.
March 13, 2025
Trump
‘Trump Recruited as Moscow Asset,’ Says Ex-KGB Spy Chief
Alnur Mussayev, former head of Kazakhstan’s security service, who rose up the ranks of the Soviet KGB, claims Moscow groomed Trump under pseudonym “Krasnov” in 1987.
Feb. 22, 2025
Kyiv
SBU Reports It Foiled Terrorist Bombing Plot in Kyiv Region
Ukraine’s Security Service said it had thwarted another bomb plot reportedly being organized by Russian intelligence and had caught two suspects making a bomb using household products.
Feb. 21, 2025
Zelensky
Ukraine Uncovers High-Ranking FSB Mole in Spy Agency
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said it discovered a Russian spy within its ranks – who was apprehended by the SBU chief himself.
Feb. 12, 2025
F-16
Ukraine Nabs Spies Surveiling F-16 Fighters
The operatives were recruited by a known female agent from Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said.
Jan. 29, 2025
SBU
Ukrainian Cadet Plots to Adjust Russian Strikes on Classmates for Money – SBU
The cadet was reportedly motivated by financial rewards and was promised an extraction to Russia following the attack.
Jan. 27, 2025
Russia
FSB Officer Shot Dead in Moscow Ministry of Defense Building
Feshchenko, who was also a Russian kettlebell-lifting champion, reportedly died from a gunshot wound to the head after a heated argument with another man.
Jan. 14, 2025
SBU
Kyiv Busts FSB Spy Network Targeting Volunteers and International Officials
The Security Service of Ukraine has detained Russian FSB agents who were conducting spying operations against volunteers and officials of international organizations in Ukraine.
Jan. 7, 2025
Crimea
Partisans Report Panic in Crimea as Protests Grow and Info Leaks Impact Russian Forces
Partisans report on reinforced military posts in Yevpatoria and panic among Russians due to the rise in protests and the leak of information damaging key military objectives.
Jan. 2, 2025
Wagner
Russia Lost More Than 500 Military Personnel in Syria, Many from Elite Units
A BBC Russian Service investigation identified the deaths of 543 Russian regular military and Wagner PMC personnel who served in Moscow’s almost decade-long campaign supporting the Assad regime.
Dec. 11, 2024
HUR
Did Ukraine Try to Hijack a Russian Helicopter by Inducing its Pilot to Defect?
TASS reported on Monday that the FSB had foiled another attempt by Ukrainian intelligence to recruit a Russian pilot to defect with his aircraft.
Nov. 11, 2024
Putin
Bizarre FSB 2025 Calendar Focused on War in Ukraine (and Macho Putin)
The cover of the annual FSB calendar greets the new year with a muscle-bound Vladimir Putin and an equally ripped Xi Jinping and its usual images extolling the virtues of Russia’s “supermen.”
Nov. 6, 2024
Zaporizhzhia-NPP
Black Clad Arsonist Targets Novosibirsk FSB Office
The Novosibirsk FSB office was set on fire when Molotov cocktails were thrown through a window in another example of growing resistance to the Kremlin, Ukraine's military intelligence says.
Oct. 5, 2024