The Security Services of Ukraine (SSU) have exposed a large-scale russian agent network that spied on the Defense Forces in five regions of Ukraine. The press service of the department reports this.
As a result of the special operation, 12 russian agents and their informants were exposed. Some of them are deserters who voluntarily left the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and, while hiding from justice, were recruited by the russian special services.
"The members of the enemy cell acted separately from each other and closed in on the resident (head) of the intelligence group, who was in the Dnipropetrovsk Region. For the conspiracy, he used fake "cover documents", such as a fake "volunteer ID" and "anti-corruption activist," the report says.
Photo: SSU
He recruited accomplices from Zaporizhzhia, as well as the Kharkiv, Sumy, Mykolaiv and Odesa Regions to cooperate with the aggressor.
In these regions, the participants scouted the firing positions of the Ukrainian air defense, tried to identify the locations of secret military airfields, where, according to the occupiers, F-16 aircraft could be based.
A separate task of the enemy agents was to establish the addresses of companies involved in the production of electronic warfare equipment against russian drones.
"To obtain intelligence, the participants "secretly" used their acquaintances, in particular, Ukrainian military personnel who were in the frontline regions of Ukraine. In case of receiving preliminary information, the agents went to the area to conduct additional reconnaissance near potential targets," the SSU said.
Initially, the members of the intelligence group "reported" to the resident, and then he passed the information on to his russian supervisor.
Military counterintelligence detained the organizer and informed his key accomplices about the suspicion. The issue of declaring suspicion to other members of the network is currently being resolved.
The SSU investigators informed the detainees about two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
- Part 2 of Article 111 (high treason committed under martial law);
- Part 2 of Article 114-2 (unauthorized dissemination of information about the movement, movement or location of the Armed Forces of Ukraine).
The perpetrators face from 8 years in prison to life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
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