Ukraine’s navy chief says one among his places of work was bugged and different units had been detected

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s navy chief mentioned Monday {that a} covert listening gadget was present in one of many places of work the place he works, and hinted with out elaborating that bugs had been detected in different places.

Army Cmdr. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi commented to native media about Sunday’s revelation by Ukraine’s Security Service that in a routine sweep a bug was present in a room he used. The gadget wasn’t working, the company mentioned.

Suspicion instantly fell on Russia amid the just about 22-month struggle between the 2 nations that’s set to grind on into one other 12 months.

“I have several offices where I work. This happened in one of them,” Zaluzhnyi mentioned. “We checked (the room) and found (the device),” he mentioned.

He added that listening units weren’t solely discovered within the workplace the place he labored, however he didn’t present additional particulars and left it unclear whether or not multiple gadget was discovered within the Ukraine General Staff premises.

The murky developments left plenty of questions unanswered. Officials didn’t remark additional.

The intelligence companies of each Russia and Ukraine have been lively throughout the struggle.

Ukraine‘s military intelligence chief has survived 10 assassination attempts carried out by the Russian state security service, or FSB, according to Ukrainian authorities. Last month, his wife underwent hospital treatment after being diagnosed with heavy metals poisoning.

Ukraine’s spy company, in the meantime, reportedly has been lively in sabotage operations far behind the entrance line.

Artillery bombardments proceed to assert civilian lives because the front-line preventing turns into slowed down by wintry mud and snow.

Two Ukrainian civilians had been killed and a minimum of two had been injured over the earlier 24 hours, the president’s workplace reported Monday.

In the north, the Russian military shelled the village of Krasnopillia within the Sumy area, killing a civilian in his dwelling and damaging residential buildings, it mentioned. In the south, an 81-year-old man died on the road throughout an assault on the middle of Kherson metropolis.

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Associated Press Writer Yuras Karmanau in Tallinn, Estonia, contributed to this report.

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