Russian state media leaked audio recordings of the Ukrainian intelligence agent who is charged with murdering the woman who blew up that Ukrainian oligarch in Monaco (Vitaly Zhikovich; the woman was, of course, also an SBU agent, though probably not an “official” intelligence officer).
On these recordings, among other things, he calmly refers to his own work as “terrorism”, talks about Israeli software that Mossad shared with the SBU, explains how much he loves his work (including assassinations), mentions that they have specific orders from Zelensky to cause civilian casualties during attacks, and talks about a plot to murder a Dagestani official by enlisting local Islamists (the assassination plot was thwarted by the FSB, and the Dagestani official is on the Ukrainian hit list because he’s an SMO war hero).
The recordings were clearly obtained by Russian intelligence originally, and I have suspected some recent Russian intelligence coup against the SBU for a while now, partly due to how badly Operation Spider Web 2.0 failed (I don’t think I’ve mentioned that on here? They caught several trucks with drones in Siberia, arrested a bunch of people involved with it, etc.
Basically the plan was the same as the original Operation Spider Web – smuggle drone parts into Russia and attack air bases through perfidy – only this time they were discovered and neutralized).
Looks like there’s been some SIGINT penetration, somebody flipped, or the SBU just got sloppy.
The latest Radio War Nerd episode with Events in Ukraine covers this. A lot of organized crime/state/intelligence stuff happening.