Former Army Chief Says Security Officers Tried to Intimidate Him in Wartime Ukraine

Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom and former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, has publicly described an alleged 2022 incident in which officers from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) entered a temporary military command facility linked to him in Kyiv. The account was given in an interview with the Associated Press and comes amid long-standing reports of strained relations between Zaluzhnyi and President Volodymyr Zelensky during the early phases of Russia’s full-scale invasion. According to Zaluzhnyi, the incident occurred in mid-September 2022, at a moment when Ukraine was carrying out a successful counteroffensive in the northeast....