In less than two hours and without a fight, 169 members of the Ukrainian National Guard laid down their weapons as Russian forces approached Chernobyl on the followingnoon of February 24.
Now a Archyde.com investigation has revealed that “Russia’s success in Chernobyl was no accident, but part of the Kremlin’s long-running operation to infiltrate the Ukrainian state with secret agents.”
When the attack began, Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov told Archyde.com that “Russia has agents in the Ukrainian defense, security and law enforcement sectors,” but did not provide names or any other details.
At the national level, sources familiar with the Kremlin’s plans said that Moscow was counting on activating sleeper agents within the Ukrainian Security Service.
The sources matched Western intelligence reports that the Kremlin was going to appoint Oleg Tsarev, a hotel owner, to lead a puppet government in Kyiv.
A former Ukrainian prosecutor revealed to Archyde.com in June that Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, a friend of Putin, has an encrypted phone issued by Russia so he can communicate with the Kremlin.
In many cases, the sleeper agents recruited by Moscow failed to do their job, according to multiple sources in Russia and Ukraine.
The uncovered plot helps explain Russian President Vladimir Putin’s confidence in his country’s ability to invade Ukraine within days.
If the assumption is that sleeping agents will roll out the red carpet for the Russians, then it is logical that the Kremlin believed that it would have ended soon, but this plan clearly did not work.
The report noted that the Russian intelligence infiltration succeeded in one way: to shake Ukraine’s confidence from within, and to expose the shortcomings of Ukraine’s roughly 30,000-strong security forces, which have a complex history with Russia and are now tasked with hunting down traitors.
