SBU detains Russian agent, who joined AFU to leak Ukrainian positions in Donetsk region

Press service of Security Service of Ukraine reports

Law enforcement officers established that one of the Russian agents was a resident of the Kharkiv region, who was recruited by the Russian FSB at the beginning of the full-scale invasion.  Later, the Russian informant went to the Sumy region as a displaced person and was mobilized to Ukrainian Armed Forces, where he carried out reconnaissance and subversive activities.

The Russian henchman was sent for training at a center in the Zhytomyr region, where he collected data from combat training instructors and "researched" the object's security system for Russians. Later, he was redeployed as part of Ukrainian forces to Donetsk region, where he continued to collect information.

The task of the mobilized person was to disclose bases and routes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ movement in Sloviansk and Kramatorsk districts.

He involved a countryman in his "activities" who, after February 24, 2022, moved with him to Sumy as internally displaced person, and later to Odesa region.

"Having agreed to the Russian agent's "proposal", his henchman received an appropriate briefing and began searching for bases of Ukrainian Defense Forces units in the Black Sea region. First of all, he tried to identify warehouses with artillery weapons and ammunition of Ukrainian troops. For this, he travelled around the area and secretly observed Ukrainian  objects," press service explained.

In addition, the mobilized persons were looking for "like-minded people" to cooperate with Russian special services. In the "zone of special attention" there were ex-servicemen and women who lived in the front-line areas in the south and east.

The Ukrainian Security Service detained both perpetrators while attempting to transfer classified information to the Russian Federation. During searches, law enforcement officers found mobile phones with evidence of conspiratorial mailing with Russian enemies.

The defendants were served a notice of suspicion under Part 2 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (high treason committed under martial law). The choice of custody as a measure of restraint is being decided.

• Earlier, the Security Service of Ukraine exposed a Russian enemy henchman in liberated Kherson. Collaborator from the occupational "Ministry of Internal Affairs" tried to identify members of the resistance movement.

• The Ukrainian Security Service also announced about the neutralization of Russian intelligence network; its members targeted Russians on Ukrainian critical infrastructure, including power generation enterprises.

• Law enforcement officers detained a Russian enemy henchman while tranferring data about missile strikes. He was the one who corrected Russian shelling of Lyman in the Donetsk region.

• A deputy of Siversk city council of Bakhmut district from the Opposition Platform — For Life party, banned in Ukraine, was informed of suspicion of collaborative activities.