Ukrainian Security Service

According to the Ukrainian portal Pravda, as reported by Aero.rs, for the destruction of the Antonov An-225 "Mryja", after a two-year investigation, the director of the Antonov factory, Serhiy Bychkov, and the head of security, Oleksandr Netosov, have been charged with 15 years in prison for the destruction of that plane.

President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has dismissed the deputy head of the Ukrainian Security Service.

The European Parliament on Thursday strongly condemned a notorious Russian paramilitary body, saying it "condemns in the strongest terms the heinous crimes committed by the Wagner Group and related private military entities".

Until then, Minister Shoygu should be summoned to the main administration of that service for the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in Mariupol for further processing, "Sputnik" reported.
According to the Ukrainian newspaper "Glavkom", the Russian minister is accused of being responsible, among other things, for "the formation of illegal armed formations".

Back in December 2014, Serhiy Shulakov was busy fixing cars in his company's auto-service yard in the eastern Ukrainian town of Popasna when he saw a hand reaching over the fence.

The hand that was trying to unlock the gate belonged to a member of the Ukrainian Security Service, the SBU.

The Ukrainian Security Service, SBU on Monday published a list of 206 individuals who it claimed have been fighting for private military company Wagner in Syria and eastern Ukraine, among them three Moldovan citizens.

The new name revealed among the Moldovan fighters on the list was 47-year-old Serghey Prida from Soroca in north-east Moldova.

Serbia and Ukraine expressed respect for each other's territorial integrity during a meeting of their presidents on Tuesday that papered over years of tension over Belgrade's refusal to condemn Russian actions in Crimea and the flow of Serbian mercenaries fighting with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.

The Romanian foreign ministry expressed concern on Tuesday about the rights of the Romanian community in Ukraine after a raid by the Ukrainian security service the previous day on a Romanian cultural centre in Chernivtsi, Northern Bukovina.

The raid has sparked new tensions between Kiev and Bucharest over Romanian minority rights in the former Soviet state.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) firmly condemns any action taken against such schools teaching in Romanian language in Ukraine, in the context of information presented by the Security Service in this country regarding such attempts to set fire to some of the education units teaching in Romanian.

Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated after massive explosions and a blaze at a military ammunition depot in central Ukraine.

Ukranian emergency services said the blasts occurred at a military base near Kalynivka in the Vynnytsya region, 270km (168 miles) west of Kiev.

One person was injured, it said.