The SSU CI detained two russian military intelligence (GRU) agents who helped the enemy to establish the consequences of the Oreshnik strike on the civilian infrastructure of the Lviv Region on the night of January 8-9, 2026. This is stated in the SSU's message.
According to law enforcement officers, a 64-year-old resident of Mukachevo, who was recruited by the enemy special service remotely, and his 22-year-old unemployed neighbor were involved in the reconnaissance of this attack.
Detention of a GRU agent. Photo: SSU
Security Service of Ukraine officers established that the junior agent came from Zakarpattia to the Lviv Region after the attack on the instructions of the GRU of the aggressor country russia. He visited locations in the area of the missile attack, took photos of them and recorded the coordinates on Google maps.
He then passed the collected information to a "senior" agent who remained in Mukachevo and reported directly to his supervisor from the russian special service.
The SSU detained both correctors at the same time: one at his place of residence in Mukachevo, and the other red-handed in the Lviv Region, when he was conducting additional reconnaissance near the place of the enemy hit.
According to the SSU, the russians needed information about the scale of destruction of Ukrainian facilities after the strike to use it in their information and psychological special operations and to plan new attacks in the region.
During the searches, the SSU seized electronic devices with evidence of work for the russian secret service. The SSU also intercepted conversations between one of the agents and their supervisor. The audio was attached to the criminal proceedings The offenders are in custody. They face life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, the Security Service's counterintelligence exposed two agents of russian military intelligence in Odesa. On the instructions of the enemy, the attackers were preparing attacks on the Ukrainian military deployed in the region using "drops" from a civilian quadcopter
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