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SBU

SBU is the initialism of sensitive but unclassified.

Proper noun

SBU

  1. The Security Service of Ukraine, the law enforcement authority and main intelligence and security agency of the Ukrainian government.
    • Ukraine’s SBU security service and police have raided a 1,000-year-old Orthodox Christian monastery in Kyiv as part of operations to counter suspected “subversive activities by Russian special services”. […] The SBU did not give details about the outcome of Tuesday’s raid.2022 November 22, Lorenzo Tondo, “Ukraine’s security service raids Russian-backed monastery in Kyiv”, in The Guardian
    • Ukraine’s domestic intelligence service, the SBU, said one of the soldiers was captured on Thursday.2025 January 11, Cassandra Vinograd, “Ukraine Says It Captured 2 North Korean Soldiers Fighting for Russia”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Origin of SBU

Borrowed from Ukrainian СБУ (SBU), initialism of Слу́жба безпе́ки Украї́ни (Slúžba bezpéky Ukrajíny, literally “Security Service of Ukraine”).

Questions about SBU

What does SBU mean?
SBU means the Security Service of Ukraine, the law enforcement authority and main intelligence and security agency of the Ukrainian government.
What is SBU the initialism of?
SBU is the initialism of sensitive but unclassified.
What part of speech is SBU?
SBU is a proper noun.

Words near SBU in the dictionary

  1. SBS
  2. SBSi
  3. SBSK
  4. SBSP
  5. SBT
  6. SBU
  7. Sburbventure
  8. Sburbventures
  9. SBUX
  10. SbW
  11. SBX

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