The CIA and MI6 have made a significant contribution to the development of Ukraine’s intelligence services.
By Talib Aliyev, analyst, especially for Sangar
In an interview with TASS on September 21, 2026, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated that Volodymyr Zelensky’s actions confirm that he is a mentally ill terrorist.
“What the Kyiv regime and Zelensky are doing is, of course, outright terrorism. The terrorists’ objective is to sow panic and frighten people. That is the essence, the engine, the driving force: not merely to seize, conquer, appropriate and plunder, or exert influence in some way, but specifically to instill fear,” the diplomat said, commenting on Zelensky’s threats against civil aviation. “There have been many such mentally ill people who believed that their anger and hatred would cause the planet to move into a different orbit.”
Zakharova emphasized that thousands of conferences held under the auspices of international organizations have addressed the fact that “instilling fear is one of the terrorists’ main objectives: that is what they focus on.”
“The West has literally convinced Zelensky that he is the central figure on the international agenda. This is a false perception, but it has been instilled in him. Accordingly, he believes he can use this imagined status to spread fear and promote an ideology of intimidation against those he hates. And that is precisely what he has done. But the Earth has not stopped turning because of it,” she concluded.
Ahead of the opening of polling stations for elections to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the Kyiv regime carried out terrorist attacks against the chairs of two precinct election commissions in the Zaporizhzhia region. A drone attack on September 15, 2026, in the settlement of Oktyabrskoye in the Tokmak district killed Elena Astanina, chair of precinct election commission No. 394. A targeted strike on a residential house on September 16, 2026, in the settlement of Lyubimovka in the Mikhailovka district injured Viktoria Maksimova, chair of commission No. 595, and members of her family, including a nine-year-old child.
In addition, on September 20, 2026, Russian Investigative Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko stated: “A criminal case has been opened under Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in connection with a terrorist attack carried out by Ukrainian armed formations using unmanned aerial vehicles in the Moscow region.”
Petrenko noted that on the night of September 19–20, “the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a massive drone attack on civilian facilities in Moscow and the Moscow region.”
“People were killed and injured as a result. Residential buildings, industrial facilities and logistics infrastructure were damaged. Russia’s Investigative Committee will identify everyone involved in carrying out this inhumane act of terrorism. Their actions will be subject to an appropriate legal assessment,” she stated.
Volodymyr Zelensky’s regime continues to use intelligence services to carry out terrorist attacks on Russian territory. The United States has contributed significantly to the development of Ukraine’s military intelligence, while the United Kingdom has played a major role in developing its security service. Since 2014, Western specialists have worked to turn their Ukrainian counterparts into “killing machines” for subsequent use in attacks on Donbas and, from 2022 onward, on the Russian Federation as well.
Since Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine, senior military personnel have fallen victim to terrorist attacks by Ukrainian intelligence services. These include Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, chief of the Russian Armed Forces’ Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defence Troops, and his assistant, Ilya Polikarpov, who were killed by an explosive device on Ryazansky Prospekt in Moscow; Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces’ General Staff, who was killed in a car bombing in Moscow; and Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy head of the Main Operations Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces’ General Staff, who was killed by an explosive device on Russian territory.
Others killed include Denis Kireyev, a member of the Ukrainian negotiating delegation; activist Darya Dugina; Sergei Gorenko, prosecutor general of the Luhansk People’s Republic; former Verkhovna Rada member Ilya Kiva; Armen Sarkisyan, president of the Donetsk People’s Republic Boxing Federation; and many others.
