The Security Service of Ukraine detained Russian agents who were preparing new missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and Odesa.
According to Ukrinform, this was reported by the SSU.
According to the case materials, the suspects were supposed to identify and share the locations of the Defense Forces with the invaders. The agents also spread information about the consequences of enemy strikes on civilian infrastructure to repeat attacks.
It was established that both agents acted separately but had a common handler, whose identity has already been detected by SSU cyber specialists.
To collect intelligence, the suspects went to the field, photographed potential targets, and recorded their coordinates.
Thus, in Kyiv, a 31-year-old native of temporarily occupied Melitopol was detained, who had been dispatched by Russian military intelligence to spy in the capital of Ukraine. According to the instructions of the Russian military intelligence, the agent was supposed to identify and share with the Russians the locations of repair bases of the Defense Forces’ military equipment.
In addition, the perpetrator monitored the time intervals of the largest gatherings of people near recruitment centers in the Kyiv region, which the enemy planned to target from the air. In Odesa, a former servicewoman was exposed, who, after being discharged from the military, began to cooperate with Russian military intelligence.
In exchange for money from the Russians, the woman passed them the coordinates of the deployment of maritime guard units, border guards, and the National Guard in the port city. However, as the investigation established, the agent never received the promised money from the Russian Federation.
SSU investigators served both suspects with a notice of suspicion under Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (treason committed under martial law). The perpetrators are being held in custody without the right to bail. They face life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
As reported by Ukrinform, the SSU foiled a resident of Sviatohirsk in the Donetsk region who had been passing data to the Russian invaders about the deployment points and movement routes of the Defense Forces in the Lyman direction.
Photo: SSU
