An FSS agent with the operational pseudonym "Skif" formed his own network of informants in the Odesa region. The traitor was in the “Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic” ("PMR"), from where he was able to be "lured out" by the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) employees. Currently, the Russian spy has been sentenced to a real term in prison in Ukraine.
Russia’s FSS agent from Odesa was put behind bars
An agent of the Russian Federal Security Service was sentenced to 15 years in prison for illegal activities in Ukraine.
This is reported by the Security Service of Ukraine on Facebook.
As the investigation established, the convict is a resident of Odesa, who in the early 1990s moved to Moldova, where he took part in hostilities on the side of the so-called PMR.
He then fought in Dagestan and Chechnya as part of the Russian special forces unit Edelweiss. In 2014, the traitor arrived in Odesa to organise mass riots in favour of Russia, for which he was put on the wanted list by Ukrainian law enforcement.
To escape justice, the defendant fled to unrecognised Transnistria (“The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic”), where in 2019 he was recruited by two representatives of the local FSS "branch" to carry out tasks.
Russia’s FSS agent recruited a SSU employee
The FSS agent with the operational pseudonym 'Skif' formed his own network of informants in Odesa region. He tried to recruit local law enforcement officials to join the hostile group.
According to the FSS's plan, they were supposed to pass intelligence on the deployment and movements of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in southern Ukraine to the Russian special services, the SSU wrote.
In early October this year, SSU counter-intelligence developed an operational combination and removed Skyf from the territory of unrecognised Transnistria. Then, according to the Ukrainian intelligence service's scenario, the Russian spy arrived in Odesa region to personally recruit the SSU officer.
The SSU counterintelligence officers documented each episode of the criminal activity and detained him in the region.
Based on the evidence, the court found Russian agent Skif guilty of high treason committed under martial law. Based on the SSU materials, the court sentenced him to 15 years in prison.
An FSS agent was convicted of espionage
A resident of Kharkiv who worked for the Federal Security Service of Russia was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was preparing sabotage against Ukrainian pilots and commanders.
This was reported by the Security Service of Ukraine on Facebook.
According to the SSU, the resident of Kharkiv was monitoring the servicemen of the 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, 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.
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