President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed Roman Semenchenko, the head of the Department for the Protection of National Statehood of the Security Service of Ukraine. The Security Service themselves said they would continue to "strengthen and optimise" the department to ensure the unimpeded work and safety of the media.
The Security Service of Ukraine has opened a criminal investigation into the recent downing of a Russian Il-76 military transport aircraft in Russia's Belgorod Oblast. Source: Press service of the Security Service of Ukraine in a comment for the media.
Ukraine's Security Service has exposed a Russian PSYOP that aimed to sow panic among Ukrainians through misleading emails. Though some of the accounts sending out the emails have been blocked, the Security Service has asked Ukrainians to be careful and alert.
The police have registered four cases of privacy violation due to the covert filming and bugging of employees of the investigative journalism project Bihus.info. Source: Ivan Vyhivskyi, Head of the National Police, at a briefing at the Ukraine-Ukrinform media centre on 22 January Quote: "One case is with the Security Service.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, has stated that the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) will find those guilty of illegal surveillance of Ukrainian journalists. Source: Zelenskyy in an interview for British TV channel Channel 4 News, full version of which was published by the Office of the President of Ukraine Details: The host asked Zelenskyy about the situation with independent journalists in Ukraine who were "intimidated, some of them physically".