Bihus. Info, the SBU said that some of the employees of the Department of National State Defense (DSND) who were monitoring the journalists were sent to the combat zone in Donbass.
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Among them is Igor Kravchenko, aka “Igor SBU”. Andrey Ishchuk was appointed acting head of the GZNI instead of Roman Semenchenko.
Recently, Bihus.Info journalists released their investigation – they were monitored by employees of the Department for the Protection of National Statehood of the SBU, and an order for this could have been given by the Office of the President.
Background
In January, a video was circulated online showing operators (not journalists) of Bihus.Info using drugs during a New Year’s corporate party. The video was distributed by an unknown resource “People’s Truth” with fictitious editorial staff whose photos were generated by artificial intelligence.
The founder of the Bihus.Info project, Denis Bihus, assured that he would make tough personnel changes. At the same time, he stated that members of the Bihus.Info team were followed for about a year.
Already on the evening of February 5, Bihus.Info journalists released their own investigation of the incident, stating that they were illegally followed by employees of the Department for the Protection of National Statehood of the SBU. Moreover, even after the start of a journalistic investigation.
Before the publication of Bihus.Info, President Vladimir Zelensky fired the head of the GZNI Roman Semenchenko. The SBU itself explained this as optimization, although it remembered that the strengthening of national statehood also presupposes the unhindered work of the media.
After the release of the journalistic investigation, the SBU explained that they had received operational information that among the clients of drug dealers through whom drugs were supplied to other citizens was the operator Bihus.Info.
Source: Racurs
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