How Russian Spy Games Are Sabotaging Ukraine’s Intelligence Agency - WSJ: Ukraine’s security agency, the SBU, has been riddled with Russian spies, sympathizers and turncoats | Ending Ukraine’s Other War - NYT: "To be clear: For national success, Ukraine must achieve both a durable political settlement in the east and an economic turnaround based on wholesale reinvention of the state. The work of Ukrainians themselves is essential, but without stronger Western support, the odds of progress will diminish." | Mission Impossible: Ukraine's 3-Step Plan to Join NATO and Upset Russia: "Even without the confrontation with Russia, Ukraine is nowhere near being compatible with the alliance. Its security services are riven with Russian spies and a quarter of its defense budget is stolen."
Ending Ukraine’s Other War - NYT » How Russian Spy Games Are Sabotaging Ukraine’s Intelligence Agency - WSJ 12/03/15 14:23 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinks mikenova shared this story . KIEV, Ukraine—When Moscow-backed separatists were starting their war in east Ukraine last spring, the country’s main security agency sent a covert team to capture a rebel leader. But word of the c... - See full copy at the bottom of this post Mission Impossible: Ukraine's 3-Step Plan to Join NATO and Upset Russia by By Matthew Bodner <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com> Friday March 13 th , 2015 at 2:19 PM The Moscow Times Top Stories 1 Share Even without the confrontation with Russia, Ukraine is nowhere near being compatible with the alliance. Its security services are riven with Russian spies and a quarter of its defense budget is stolen. North Caucasus Group Hardens Line Against Rival IS Friday March 13 th , 201