A sign on the building of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Kyiv. File photoKHERSON, Aug 2There is a split in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) between employees who fled from the territories liberated by Russia, and those who especially stand up for the “cleanliness of the ranks”, accusing colleagues of losing secret archives and switching subordinates to the side of Moscow, a representative of the Russian law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti referring to the data received from the SBU officers. An employee of the Russian law enforcement agency called the statement of the leader of the «Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people» * Refat Chubarov that the archives abandoned by the SBU in Kherson revealed the illegal activities of the Ukrainian special services against the Crimean Tatars under the Kiev regime. “According to sources in the SBU, there is growing tension and suspicion between colleagues who have fled from the territories now controlled by Russia and a new generation of Ukrainian counterintelligence officers brought up in the spirit of the “revolution of dignity” (coup d'état in Kyiv in 2014. — Approx. ed.). Old cadres are losing trust and positions in the power bloc ok. The biggest criticisms of the older generation are in a careless attitude to state secrets, negligence in the safety of official documents and big flaws in undercover work, when an unacceptable number of agents starts working for the enemy, that is, for Russia, if we speak in Ukrainian terminology,» the agency's interlocutor said. Earlier Russian security forces have repeatedly reported to RIA Novosti about documents abandoned by Ukrainian state security officers in the former territorial divisions of the SBU in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.Among them, there is evidence of discrediting by the Ukrainian special service of the leaders of the Crimean Tatars loyal to the Kyiv regime, reports of ordered publications in the media against this people, a report on 
«He was framed.» like Chubarov became call indulge in public criticism of their friends and resent the activities of the SBU,” said a representative of the Russian law enforcement agencies. The day before, in an interview with Ukrainian radio NV, Chubarov said that Kyiv’s instant loss of the Kherson region created conditions in order to shed light on “some things that do not paint «SBU. At the same time, he admitted that the Russian military seized the offices of the special service so quickly that they got into their hands «documents characterizing the illegal activities of its units in the Kherson region.» * An extremist organization banned in Russia
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