Ukrainian Intelligence Agency Claims to Have Intercepted Conversations of Russian Provocateurs

According to Interfax-Ukraine, Vitaliy Nayda, a top counterintelligence official of the Security Service of Ukraine, declared his agency had intercepted conversations proving that Russia “intends to initiate bloodshed in Ukraine.” Ukrainian television broadcasted one of these conversations in which two Russian agents discussed orders to open fire on Ukrainian soldiers.  Moreover, Valentyn Nalyvaichenco, another official with the Security Service of Ukraine, informed a closed session of parliament that the agency had arrested 23 career officers of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU, the successor to the Cold War KGB).

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