Ukraine's Security Service and Intelligence Service have announced that they have received information about the preparation of provocations in the international arena by Russian special services against Ukraine.
"The main goal of the enemy is to reduce the support of foreign partners and try to split Ukrainian society from within," the SBU said in a telegram channel.
"According to the plan of the Russian special services, a large-scale IPSO should cause a change in sentiment in the partner countries of the anti-Russian coalition and encourage representatives of the Ukrainian political elite to proclaim narratives about the need to negotiate with Russia on the conditions of a war freeze," the statement said.
The SBU emphasized that the Russian special services planned to actively support these statements through pro-Russian political forces in foreign countries.
According to the SBU, the enemy's plans include involving some Ukrainian politicians in the ISIS during their visits to third countries.
"According to counterintelligence, it is in this context that information about the planned meeting of the head of the European Solidarity party, Petro Poroshenko, with Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who systematically expresses an anti-Ukrainian position, is a "friend of Putin" and calls for the lifting of sanctions against Russia, can be considered," the statement said.
"Russia planned to use this meeting (as well as other "working meetings" of domestic politicians with representatives of states broadcasting pro-Russian narratives) in its IPSO against Ukraine," the SBU said.
They noted that the SBU appealed to the Office of the President, the Cabinet of Ministers and the Verkhovna Rada with a proposal to take into account information about the enemy's plans when organizing and approving foreign trips of Ukrainian delegations.
"Therefore, the leadership of the Verkhovna Rada did not grant permission for a foreign business trip to a Ukrainian deputy who was supposed to become a tool in the hands of Russian special services," the statement said.
The SBU also reminded that according to the law, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the main executive body in the formation and implementation of state policy in the field of foreign relations of Ukraine.
Background. Earlier, Petro Poroshenko said that Ukrainian border guards did not let him go on an agreed business trip.
For his part, the spokesman for the State Border Guard Service, Andriy Demchenko, said that border guards had confirmation that Poroshenko's business trip abroad had been canceled.
First Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Korniyenko said that he had canceled the order of the speaker of the Ukrainian parliament to send Poroshenko abroad on the basis of a document for official use, which cannot be made public.