{
  "id": 18363137,
  "title": "Acid, Hammers and SBU General: What Operation Carthage Reveals About Ukraine’s Unreformed Security Service",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/acid-hammers-and-sbu-general-what-operation-carthage-reveals-about",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-05T19:01:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Kyiv Post",
    "slug": "kyiv-post",
    "url": "https://www.kyivpost.com/post/89272"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Recordings released by Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau allegedly link an SBU general and police officials to a Russian-led drug cartel that tortured victims and plotted acid attacks on journalists. Why does the security service keep landing in scandal, and why has it never been reformed?",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}