Ukraine’s security and intelligence services have struggled with reputational issues ever since independence. During the early post-Soviet period, the Security Services and Foreign Intelligence Service operated with much the same mentality as the KGB during the Cold War, with the West seen as the main adversary. However, this has long since ceased to be the case.
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Russian soldiers walk past a recruitment poster for the Ukrainian armed forces while patrolling the area surrounding the Ukrainian military unit in Perevalnoye, outside Simferopol, on March 20, 2014.
