A Ukrainian court has sentenced a former senior Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) official to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of high treason and illegal weapons possession, the SBU said. According to the agency on Thursday, the former chief of staff of the SBU’s Anti-Terrorist Center was detained in February 2025 during what it described as an unprecedented counterintelligence operation codenamed “Rat.” JOIN US ON TELEGRAM Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official .