Intelligence agencies

Can intelligence shape a battlefield or prevent a war? In the case of Ukraine, the provision of strategic information by the Western alliance allowed Kyiv to adopt crucial decisions and achieve strategic strikes against the numerically superior Russian forces.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) says it has arrested a group of saboteurs suspected of plotting assassination attempts against senior officials in annexed Crimea. The case involves seven people - Ukrainians, Russians and one Bulgarian.

"Anne Keast-Butler has an impressive record at the heart of the UK's national security network, helping to counter the threats posed by terrorists, cybercriminals and malicious foreign powers," said British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, who appointed Butler, Reuters reported.

On Oct 8, 1965, the chief of Israel's foreign intelligence service, the Mossad, presented the country's prime minister with a plan to assassinate several leading Palestinian militants based in Beirut with letter bombs.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Bureau for Coordination of Security Services concluded on Monday the security situation in the country was stable despite numerous challenges and threats to national security and that all security services were working actively to eliminate any security risk to peace and stability in the country and the region and to Serbian citizens.

"Insignificant amounts of money lead to significant influence on public consciousness in Bulgaria, which should not happen. An article written by, say, the GRU was also published in Bulgarian media - for 150 euros," investigative journalist Christo Grozev told Nova TV.

"The organizer of the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge is the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and its leader Kyrylo Budanov," the FSB statement said.

The most complex security operation London has ever seen is underway.
The funeral will be attended by many world leaders and members of royal families.

Western spy chiefs say that sophistication of Beijing's intelligence operations is now comparable to the Kremlin's.
There is growing fear in Europe that the Chinese spy and counter-intelligence services represent an ever-increasing threat to Europe, even greater than the one coming from Russia.

The first joint public appearance of the two officials took place at the headquarters of MI5 in London, writes the BBC.
FBI Director Christopher Wray has said that China is the "biggest long-term economic and national security threat" and that it is meddling in US domestic politics, including meddling in recent elections.