In three days, SSU conducts more than 150 special operations, as a result of which 222 persons involved received suspicions

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), together with partners from other law enforcement agencies, conducted a series of large-scale operations and detentions during January 18-20 to counter crimes that pose a threat to state security, territorial integrity and defense capability of our state. During this period, SSU officers conducted comprehensive procedural actions in 157 criminal proceedings. As a result of these measures, 222 persons received reports of suspicion, 85 of them were detained.

This was announced by the SSU, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

In particular, according to the SSU materials, suspicions were reported to:

 19 enemy agents, who carried out intelligence and sabotage activities in favor of russian special services;

 39 persons involved in crimes in the military sphere, including persons involved in embezzlement of funds from the state defense budget;

 63 persons, including employees of the territorial recruitment and social support centers, former medical and social expert commissions and military medical commissions, as well as medical institutions, suspected of implementing "evasion schemes" and organizing illegal border crossings;

 7 persons who harmed state security in the information sphere and cyberspace, including anti-Ukrainian propagandists;

 24 persons who harmed the economic interests of the state;

 7 persons involved in the illegal circulation of weapons and military means of destruction.

In total, 287 searches were conducted within the framework of these criminal proceedings.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the SSU detained another 19 organizers of "evasion schemes" in various regions of the country.

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