UKRAINIAN COUPLE SPIED FOR POLAND

Secretary of the SBU* Press Service in the Volyn region (North -West of the Ukraine) Galina Savinskaya said that two Ukrainian citizens Mr and Mrs Oleg Gryzhenko had been sentenced to four and a half years in jail for selling Ukrainian military secrets to Poland. Major Gryzhenko and his wife Ludmila were caught red-handed when turning over sensitive defence information to foreign agents. According to Ms. Savinskaya the Gryzhenkos’ activity could seriously damage the Ukraine’s defence capability. She did not provide any details.The couple had been enrolled by the Polish military intelligence, Savinskaya said. They had been gathering both military and other confidential information for Polish intelligence officers in exchange for money. The Ukrainian propaganda is downplaying the spy scandal. Poland is posing as a friend of the Ukraine. The regime in Warsaw promised to support the Ukrainian membership in NATO and the EU.

*SBU – Security Service of the Ukraine (Sluzhba Bezpeki Ukrainy)