{"id":881455,"date":"2026-09-03T03:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/881455\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T03:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:34:14","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-shameful-zelenskyy-furious-after-shootout-between-kyivs-spy-services-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/881455\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: \u2018Shameful\u2019 \u2013 Zelenskyy furious after shootout between Kyiv\u2019s spy services | Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted Ukraine\u2019s SBU and GUR after a shootout in Kyiv between the two intelligence and security services reportedly left three officers injured. The SBU is Ukraine\u2019s internal security service, like MI5 or the FBI. The GUR, or HUR, is its armed forces counterpart and also carries out military activities and special operations. Reports said<\/a> the gunfight stemmed from the SBU taking into custody a leader of an anti-Kremlin Russian unit that fights for Ukraine under the watch of the GUR. Ukraine\u2019s president called the situation \u201cabsolutely shameful\u201d as he called in prosecutors and investigators, as well as firing a senior SBU officer. \u201cHere in Ukraine, shooting is only permissible at Russian occupiers in defence of Ukraine,\u201d Zelenskyy said. \u201cOur state will not perceive any other shootout as something that anyone is allowed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russian drones hit central Kyiv on Wednesday in a seventh \u2060day of intense strikes on the capital. Explosions were heard again in the early hours of Thursday morning. On Wednesday, 11 people were wounded, and residential and \u2060university buildings damaged. Russia also struck power facilities in the southern Odesa region with missiles and drones, authorities said, knocking out power to more than 350,000 homes. Two people were killed and eight wounded in strikes on the south-eastern city of Dnipro, the regional governor said, where food warehouses and educational buildings were damaged.<\/p>\n

Norway has seized \u2060a Russian cruise ship over unpaid compensation for the illegal annexation of Crimea. In April \u20602023 a tribunal in The Hague ordered Russia to pay Naftogaz $4.22bn to compensate for its Crimean assets that were seized when Moscow\u2019s forces invaded. Naftogaz is a Ukrainian state oil and gas firm. Russia has refused to pay the compensation. Naftogaz said the seizure was ordered by the \u200cNord-Troms and Senja district court on 31 August. It said the vessel, the Professor Molchanov, was owned by Russia and used for commercial expedition cruises, including to the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has urged the UN\u2019s aviation agency, the ICAO, and its member countries \u2060to ban their airlines from Russian airspace, \u200ba day after Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned it was \u201cbecoming completely unsafe\u201d because of Ukrainian drones<\/a>. Ukraine wrote to agency seeking \u201cthe full prohibition by ICAO member states of civil aircraft operations within the airspace of the Russian Federation\u201d. In response to Ukraine\u2019s warning, the ICAO called on its members to ensure the safety of civilian aircraft. \u201cLong-range weapons systems, unmanned aircraft systems [UAS], global navigation satellite system radio frequency interference, and advanced air defence systems are among the military technologies jeopardising civilian aviation.\u201d<\/p>\n

It could take Ukraine<\/a> several years to start building Patriot air defence interceptors and doing so is not an immediate solution for Kyiv, Marco Rubio has said. \u201cI mean, these are highly sophisticated weaponry,\u201d the US secretary of state told Fox News. The US was negotiating with Ukraine over licensed production of Patriot missiles, Rubio said. \u201cThat may come to fruition, but it really won\u2019t solve the short-term challenge that they\u2019re pointing to,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cthe whole world is asking for more air interceptors\u201d but US needs came first. \u201cIt\u2019s become the number one defence need on the planet, not just for Ukraine, but on the planet,\u201d including in the Middle East because of the US-Israeli war against Iran.<\/p>\n

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine\u2019s air raid alerting system would be revised into two tiers \u2013 red for missiles, yellow for drones \u2013 allowing for more \u201cpredictability and a better understanding of how to react\u201d. He added that curfew \u2060hours would be reduced and more above-ground transport options offered to compensate for metro closures. The measures were a response to \u201cRussia\u2019s changing tactics\u201d and \u201cits use of drones to wear down civilian life in our cities and disrupt normal economic activity across our country\u201d, Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n

Belgium has continued to block EU attempts to use \u20ac200bn in frozen Russian assets for Ukraine\u2019s benefit. Opposition from Belgium has forced EU members to instead give Ukraine a \u20ac90bn loan off their own backs \u2013 but as that fund runs down, four countries have pushed to reopen the debate on the Russian assets. Belgium\u2019s foreign minister, Maxime Prevot, said the Belgian government\u2019s position remained \u201cunchanged \u2026 Using these assets through a process akin to confiscation carries significant risk.\u201d The EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said after ministerial talks in Ireland that fresh funds for Ukraine should ultimately come from Russia. \u201cThat is why some of the member states were proposing to go back to the discussion of the frozen assets. And we will continue that discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s sanctions enforcer, the OFSI, has fined Citibank \u00a34.7m (US$6.35m) for failings and errors that led to banned Russians getting access to funds. Most of it happened between February and November 2022, the OFSI said. The CBNA London branch processed 970 payments totalling \u00a319.7m \u2013 some for state-owned shipping company PJSC \u200cSovcomflot, as well as Alfa-Bank, PJSC Gazprombank and Credit Bank of Moscow. The agency did not consider there to \u200bhave been any intent by CBNA London to breach sanctions, and the bank voluntarily disclosed most of the breaches. A Citi spokesperson said it \u200cwelcomed the conclusion of the \u200ccase and took sanctions compliance seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted Ukraine\u2019s SBU and GUR after a shootout in Kyiv between the two intelligence and security…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-881455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}