A Ukrainian was detained in Bulgaria for spying on the country's largest thermal power plant.

A Ukrainian was detained in Bulgaria for spying on the country's largest thermal power plant Anzhelika Baybak

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On June 19, a 23-year-old Ukrainian was detained in Bulgaria. He spied on the country's largest thermal power plant, Maritza-Vostok 2.

At the same time, Deputy City Prosecutor Hristo Krastev states that this is a threat to the security of the country. Now all the circumstances of the incident are being established, and the Ukrainian was detained.

In Bulgaria, a Ukrainian spied on the largest thermal power plant

On June 19, a 23-year-old Ukrainian citizen was detained in Bulgaria, who was spying on the largest thermal power plant “Maritsa-Vostok 2”. During the searches, drones, mobile phones, cameras, numerous SIM cards and memory cards were found in his possession.

As Krastev reported, the Ukrainian was accused of collecting information constituting state secrets, for the purpose of providing them to a foreign state.

Expertise is now being prepared to establish whether he actually took photographs and which photographs of a strategic object, since the thermal power plant ” “Maritsa-East 2”, according to the decision of the Council of Ministers, is a strategic object,” said the prosecutor.

The man was detained for 72 hours. The issue of choosing a preventive measure for him is now being decided. The case is being considered by the Sofia City Court.

At the same time, the network notes that it is also necessary to confirm whether the spy is really a citizen of Ukraine, and whether he was engaged in espionage activities at all. The detained 23-year-old man has already been interrogated, and investigators are checking all the data.