The security service exposed a Russian military intelligence agent who was preparing air attacks on the Cherkasy region.
This was reported by the press service of the SBU.
It was indicated that the main task of the attacker was to identify junction railway stations involved in transporting military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the front.
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The Russians also wanted to receive from their agent the exact coordinates of warehouses with weapons and ammunition of the Ukrainian troops and the locations of military hospitals where wounded soldiers of the Defense Forces are being treated.
The occupiers were going to use this information to plan missile and drone strikes.
— In this way they hoped to “cut” routes for supplying weapons and ammunition to the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the front line, as well as inflict fire damage on the places of greatest concentration of personnel of the Ukrainian troops, — the message says.
Law enforcement officers exposed a Russian agent, documented his criminal actions and detained him in his own home.
Thanks to the quick response, it was possible to inform the command of the Defense Forces in a timely manner to ensure the safety of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units.
As the investigation established, the defendant is a 45-year-old native of the Luhansk region, who moved to the Cherkasy region as a migrant in April 2022.
At the beginning of this year, he was remotely recruited by a representative of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (known as the GRU) through a male acquaintance — militant of the Russian occupation group stationed in the temporarily occupied territory of the Lugansk region.
For communication they used anonymous chats in the messenger. The transfer of intelligence data took place in the form of photographs of Ukrainian objects with descriptions, geolocations and location reference.
For each completed task, the defendant received from the Russians a “salary”.
During searches in the detainee’s apartment, a mobile phone with evidence of his correspondence with Russian intelligence and a bank card to which enemy funds were credited were seized.
The man was informed of suspicion under Part 2 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code (high treason committed under martial law). He faces life imprisonment.
Previously, the SBU detained an FSB agent in Kyiv, who, in the first days of a full-scale invasion, collected intelligence for the invaders.
