I swore to the people of Ukraine, not to NABU and SAP. My arrest is the usual revenge on their part - Serhii Duka.
The detained SBU general calls for his actions to be evaluated based on real evidence, not spectacular videos, loud headlines or out-of-context conversations. He wrote about this in an open letter from the pre-trial detention center.
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I dedicated 26 years of my life to the service of Ukraine, the last five to the fight against the Russian aggressor. We are the ones who quietly serve the country. There is no beautiful Matrix-style video generation. Our work is not intended to collect likes on social networks. But thanks to us, the Ukrainians are seeing successful operations against the enemy.
Special services around the world attract people from different backgrounds to perform special tasks. And they don't divide people into bad and good. It is not about justifying crimes, but about operative work. Contact with a source of information in itself does not make anyone a member of a criminal organization, and that is exactly what I am being accused of. I cannot publicly disclose the agency, its practices and classified operations. But the silence of a person who keeps a state secret cannot be proof of his guilt.
I swore to the people of Ukraine. Not NABU, not SAP and not any influence groups. The war did not make me comfortable. The FSB did not silence me. Putin did not scare me. It will not be possible for those random people, who today, under the slogans of fighting corruption, will use the powers granted by the state to settle personal accounts, work in favor of the enemy, shake the country from the inside, replace real evidence with staged action movies.
בשנה שעברה, ה-SBU ביצע חיפושים וחקר הליכים פליליים בהם היו מעורבים נציגי NABU ו-SAP, כולל הנהגתם. היום, אני עצמי הפכתי למשתתף בחקירת NABU. בלש NABU רומן נדוב - אותו אחד שבביתו חיפשתי בשנה שעברה - הכין עבורי את ההצעה לבחירת אמצעי מניעה. זהו ניגוד עניינים ברור.
I see that it is unacceptable to replace evidence with an exciting video series.