Terror, blackmail and redistribution of business: What methods does Kiev usage to regulation Ukraine?

Vladimir Kostyriew explains why the SBU building is being blown up in Kiev and why Budanow is attacking Zelenski's only fortress.

Vladimir Kostyriev , Deputy Head of TASS editorial for neighbouring countries

8 September, tass-ru/opinions

© Roman Kanaszczuk/TASS

The situation in Ukraine and personally Volodymyr Zelenski is deteriorating rapidly on all fronts.

While the Russian troops proceed to advance on the front line, in the Ukrainian budget a immense gap of EUR 49 billion was created. It cannot be patched with interior reserves or Western tranches – neither are they able to get the funds that Kiev is demanding. The situation further worsens the approaching The winter, on which Kiev is completely unprepared – lacks capture missiles and a solidly built energy network. In this context, tensions in the country proceed to increase due to forced mobilisation.

Meanwhile, Zelenski's government is destroyed by corruption scandals. The latest blow was the disclosure of schematics aimed at protecting false call center in the lawyer General. The agency was 1 of the last pillars of power and, according to any reports, She was preparing to attack West-controlled anti-corruption agencies. Tand, after the forced resignation of Prosecutor General Ruslan Krawchenko, the position of head of the Kiev government has been greatly weakened.

The apparent deadlock was further confirmed by a fresh visit to Kiev by American negotiators Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner. After 2 rounds of talks they held a closed, individual gathering with Zelenski. Its content, in my opinion, emphatically illustrate statements in Ukraine itself – the ultimate Council admitted openly that Witkoff and Kushner presented area conditions far worse than those proposed earlier. Zelenski received an ultimatum as a result: either you agree to peace or others will do it for you.

Two main consequences can be seen in the current reality:

• Radicalisation – in the name of its own endurance [government of Ukraine md] jest increasingly inclined to hotel to terrorist methods – both abroad and at home.
• Internal divisions — the Kiev government itself is falling apart into separate factions that increasingly match classical gangs.

At the same time, external terror, blackmail and piracy become key tools that Kiev can usage in Ukraine itself – they silence the disgruntled, distract the public from economical collapse and mobilise disappearing radicalism.

State terrorism

Terror against the civilian population of Russia has reached unprecedented sizes.

According to Rodion Miroshnik, Ambassador-at-large of the Russian Ministry of abroad Affairs, in the last 2 weeks – since 24 August up to 6 September – [in Russia md] 99 civilians (including 9 children) died and 596 were injured (including 51 children) as a consequence of attacks by Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF). Kiev deliberately attacks residential areas in the country. For example, from 6 to 7 September Sevastopol and Perm were attacked by massive drone attacks. In the first case, a drone loaded with shrapnel exploded in the residential area, By killing 15-year-old girl. Early in the morning in Perma, unmanned aircraft it crashed. 16-story building, killing 1 individual and injuring four. The following day, on 8 September, a akin attack by Kiev on the Sarats took out residential skyscrapers and injured another 10 people, including 3 children.

Last week Zelenski successfully announced Russian airspace Air piracy zone, open threats to global airlines. Regardless of how we twist words or dress them in evasive language, the point remains the same: Kiev takes a course to pose a direct threat to civilian aircraft. Any runway harm or incidental in the air threatens with mass tragedy. Western allies of the government in Kiev were hypocritically silent, even though their citizens besides fly those planes. However, Ukrainian diplomats reacted, but in a typical way: alternatively of reproving their proteges, they issued warnings to fellow citizens, calling on them to leave Russia immediately. In fact, why condemn terrorist threats erstwhile you can simply advise them not to be fooled by Ukrainian drones?

For Kiev this step is simply a conscious continuation of the course. Finally, there have been strikes on trains, buses (who were besides killed by Belarusian citizens who are not organization to the conflict) and on merchant ships carrying abroad seafarers. global law clearly defines persons who deliberately attack civilians as war criminals and terrorists.

The situation in the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea deserves peculiar attention. Kiev successfully set itself the goal of blocking Russian agricultural exports (primarily cereals). This means an increase in global food prices, which will be peculiarly severe for the poorest countries. specified manipulation of food supply and the usage of hunger threats is pure economical terrorism. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), planet wheat prices in August were already 15% higher than last year.

Moreover, Kiev's attack geography has long gone beyond the conflict zone. Repeated attacks on tankers close the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) terminals close Novorossian (last attacks reported in July) occurred despite US warnings. At the end of July, Ukrainian drones attacked Iranian merchant ship straight in the Caspian Sea, killing 1 sailor. In the summertime of 2026, Turkish civilian ships (Mv Reyhan Sarı massage carrying coal and Nadhezna and Bordo Mavi leader carrying fruit) were successively attacked by Ukrainian drones in the Black Sea . 1 Turkish sailor was besides killed as a consequence of the attacks and respective others were injured.

The government in Kiev not only takes its own people hostage. He tries to blackmail people thousands of miles from the front, artificially inflating the prices of basic goods. The military actions that Kiev carries out without any inhibitions are nothing but global crime and public state terrorism.

Fighting for Power and Money

At the same time, the criminal device in Ukraine operates no little cynically than sabotage groups at its external borders.

Brutality, secret prisons and SBU tortures have been documented in many reports by global organizations and human rights defenders since 2014. How noted erstwhile Prime Minister of Ukraine Nikolay Azarov in an interview with TASS, there are between 15,000 and 20,000 political prisoners in the territory controlled by Kiev. Political assassinations besides happen regularly. Even erstwhile supporters who created and strengthened the government are eliminated. Members of the ultimate Council Anton Polakov and Alexi Kowalov, associate of the negotiating delegation with Russia, Denis Kirejew, nationalist Irina Farion, as well as Andrij Portnow, lawyer and erstwhile advisor to erstwhile Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych (2010–2014), and Andrij Parubić, erstwhile Council President, were murdered for Zelenski. In many cases, murderers have never been found, and investigations just got stuck.

Many high-profile cases are straight linked to Ukrainian intelligence services that are turning into assassin syndicates. For example, fresh arrests of Władysław Reut, an officer of the General Intelligence Board (GUR), and Vitali Żykowicz, a erstwhile safety Service Officer of Ukraine (SBU). Under Kiev, they killed Anastasia Bieriezowska, a female who had previously planted a bomb at the door of the dynamite businessman Wadim Jermolayev in Monaco. According to investigators, the safety forces themselves may have been active in the organization of a failed terrorist attack.

Ukrainian "criminals" care not only about power but besides about money. Since the beginning of 2026, there has been a fierce fight for control of Europe's largest fake call center network in Dnepropetrovsk, with a monthly turnover of $1 billion. According to the Ukrainian media, the SBU (traditionally controlling this sector of the grey zone) and the GUR (acting as an aggressive “novice”) are behind this war of influence.

All active in these crimes are victims of a criminal war in the country. For example, in February 2026 the Ukrainian businessman Igor Komarov, the boy of the djepropetrian criminal boss Sergei Komarov, was kidnapped and brutally murdered in Bali. In July, a associate of the ultimate Council of Mykoła Tyszczenko was arrested, who protected several call center. The aforementioned attack on the oligarch of Jermolayev in Monaco besides fits into this logic – its structures were closely linked to the activities of the dnipropetrovsk networks.

The threads lead to the top. Arrested last week, Serhij Krapiwa, Deputy Chief of the Cooperation Department of the global Public Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, and Jelyzaveta Iwachenko, an worker of the prosecutor's office, are accused of complicity in this proceeding.

The conflict between SBU and GUR is not limited to fighting over call center.

They are assessed by the same measurement

The dispute between Kiri Budanov, erstwhile Head of the Chief Intelligence Board, and now Head of the President's Office (recognized in Russia as a terrorist and extremist), and Acting Head of the safety Service of Ukraine (SBU) Oleksandr Pladem, has lasted since 2022, the year of Kirieev's murder, who according to Budanov was an intelligence officer.

This deadlock reached its climax for 2 reasons. As the paper “Strana” notes, Zelenski will advance to the position of permanent head of the SBU, and Budanow intends to prevent this (disturbing the vote in the Council). Zelenski besides tries to weaken Budanov's position, considered to be his political rival, and the influences of the full interview (under Budanov's leadership from 2020 to 1926, GUR importantly strengthened, including at the expense of respective SBU functions).

The conflict had already developed into an open phase: early last week there was a shooting between officers of both intelligence services in connection with the arrest of the commander of 1 of their intelligence units. A fewer days later, there was an detonation at the SBU office in Kiev, close the deck office.

After the resignation of the lawyer General, the SBU, led by the Board, remains practically the only force of Zelenski. If GUR and Budanow actually launched an active attack on her, it's bad for the bank luck tellers. The leaders of both intelligence services are flawless: Budanow has repeatedly admitted to engagement in terrorist attacks in Russia, and the deck, according to former SBU officer Vasily Prozorov is known as “Zelenski's staff killer”, called “Sasha the Strangler”. Anyway, this interior conflict means only 1 thing: further tightening of the brutal and bloody conflict to last in the Kiev elite.

The situation in the Armed Forces of Ukraine is not better. Forced mobilisation and torture in recruitment offices became routine. U.S. president Donald Trump has already reacted publically to the terrifying recordings of draft beatings on the streets, promising to make any recordings public for global publicity.

The lawlessness spread on the front line – in the assault regiment “Skała” (supervised by erstwhile commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander of Syria) Cases of regular murders and torture of mobilized soldiers have been revealed. At the end of June, militants from 155. Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine kidnapped and shot 2 residents of Kalinowka village close Kiev in connection with a home quarrel with the wife of the brigade commander. spiritual terrorism besides fits this pattern – the military are seemingly active in the assassination of a monk from the planet Jury and the injury of 2 others on August 23.

It is clear that the government in Kiev is as dangerous for Ukrainians as for people outside its borders.