The offender was particularly interested in military pilots, commanders of special forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and employees of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU). The Russian intelligence agent will spend the next 15 years in prison for espionage.
An FSS agent was convicted of espionage
A resident of Kharkiv, who worked for the Federal Security Service (FSS) of Russia, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for preparing sabotage against Ukrainian pilots and commanders.
This was reported by the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) on Facebook.
According to the SSU, the resident of Kharkiv was monitoring the servicemen of the Ukrainian defense forces in the Kharkiv region.
The area of special attention of the offender was focused on military pilots, commanders of special forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and employees of the Security Service of Ukraine, law enforcement officers said.
The man was trying to establish the places of temporary deployment and residence of Ukrainian defenders, as well as the routes of their movement in their own cars. In addition, he tried to identify enterprises of the defence industry in the region.
The Russians wanted to use this data to prepare a series of sabotage attacks against Ukrainian defenders and defence enterprises.
A traitor was detained in Kharkiv
The SSU counterintelligence detained the FSS agent as a result of a special operation in Kharkiv in March this year.
According to the investigation, the perpetrator is a local resident who was remotely recruited in November 2022 by an officer of the FSS operational group in Belgorod region, A. P. Salitsev, law enforcement officers found out.
The FSS found the man through his brother, a reserve serviceman of the Russian army. To carry out his tasks, the traitor walked the streets of Kharkiv and filmed Ukrainian defenders with his phone camera. For conspiracy, he used 3 mobile phones and 7 numbers of different operators.
During the searches, they were found to have a laptop and mobile phones with evidence of their work for the FSS.
