After Russia's initial plan against Ukraine failed, there were press reports that Vladimir Putin allegedly blamed the FSB for this.. Some media wrote that the special service was generally removed from the Ukrainian campaign. And the Kremlin allegedly gave all intelligence work to the GRU.

However, Ukrainian officials told the Washington Post that this was not actually true..

“The FSB did not fulfill the task that was given to it. But she keeps running. Not as enthusiastic as before, but continues,” an unnamed official from Kyiv told the publication..

Ukrainian intelligence data suggests that the FSB, like the Russian army, has regrouped its forces and concentrated on territories in the south and east that Russian artillery destroyed.

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According to him, the FSB officers began to implement the plan that was initially developed for Kyiv..

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“The goal is political control, economic control, as well as control over criminal groups, all areas of activity in the occupied territories. The ultimate goal is to establish a pro-Russian government, ”added the interlocutor of the publication from the Ukrainian intelligence.

Since the end of the war is not on the horizon, the FSB officers carry out tasks in the occupied areas, rotating every three months.. Russian intelligence officer Igor Kovalenko, who oversaw pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine and was even going to live in the apartment of one of his informants in Kyiv, returned to Russia with a broken finger. Ukrainian intelligence intercepted his telephone conversation with relatives, during which he spoke about the need to change phone numbers, move to other addresses in Moscow, and sell family cars. Later in May, he told his family that he was being sent to Ukraine "