Not only on the frontline, or between local power centers in Kiev, but also between the security services of the Anglo-American 'allies'.

On Wednesday Kiev experienced a gun fight between units of the main (military) intelligence service GRU and forces of the internal security service (SBU) of Ukraine.

The confusing incident has a multifold background. Events in Ukraine attempts to summarize the reasons:

First, the old conflict between the SBU and the GUR. In this case, it's actually a question of the SBU and the new GUR leadership against the old leader of the GUR, Kirilo Budanov, and the legions of GUR warriors who remain loyal to Budanov. On the side of the SBU, we have its ruthless leader Oleksandr Poklad, also known as 'the Strangler'.

Mapping onto this first conflict is a second one. On the side of the SBU is Zelensky's power clan, which has long been frustrated with Budanov's excessive ambitions. The fact that Budanov still wields a private army of prominent, ideologically fanatical warlords displeases the president and his private court. Budanov has also been trying to foil Zelensky's plan to appoint the ultra-loyal Poklad as de jure head of the SBU. …

Third and most importantly, revenue. More precisely, competition over control of the highly lucrative scam call centre business, which employs around 60,000 Ukrainians and brings in $1 billion USD a month. The Europeans have been pushing Zelensky to crack down on the industry, which very obviously operates with the sanction of Ukraine's 'law enforcement' agencies, particularly the GUR and SBU.

There have previously been such incidents between the GRU and SBU. One shootout was over the control of a luxury vacation retreat. Others over more valuable businesses:

Today's shootout comes right as Zelensky announced a new law to target the scam call centres. Just in time, because over the past few months, there has been a spate of terrorist attacks and murders around the world, all linked to the GUR and its scam call centres — torture and decapitation in Bali, explosions in Monaco, and worst of all, naive European burghers scammed out of their savings. Constantly linked with this transnational web of violence is the GUR's bizarre menagerie of fanatical warlords, along with more traditional mafia bosses.

These mafia like turf wars have long become normal in Ukraine.

But there is more behind the recent one than a hassle about phone scam revenues.

As head of the GRU Kirilo Budanov had become a serious competitor for the (acting) president Vladimir Zelinski. He was promoted away from the GRU, and thereby cut off from most of his resources and soldiers, to lead the office of the president. While this is a powerful position, the step was taken to keep Budanov under control.