The Security Service’s Counterintelligence Directorate has exposed yet another FSB agent in Zaporizhzhia. After his arrest, he planned to negotiate his release with his russian handler: he wanted to ask him to strike the detention center with a strike drone. The SSU uncovered this plan and prevented its execution, according to a statement from the security service.
According to the case file, the perpetrator was a conscript recruited by the enemy, whom the Security Service detained while he was coordinating an enemy strike against one of the Defense Forces’ units.
The investigation revealed that russian intelligence officers recruited the agent after he deserted his military unit and began looking for “easy money” on messaging apps. An FSB officer contacted him and promised him “quick side jobs” in exchange for cooperation.
After being recruited, the agent began gathering information about one of the temporary bases of an elite unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which the Russians planned to target with a strike drone.
"SSU officers uncovered the enemy’s plan in advance and detained the suspect while he was drafting an intelligence report for the FSB of the Russian Federation. While already in custody, the agent planned to escape from the detention center. According to his plan, the Russians were to direct a strike drone to the detainee’s coordinates to damage the building housing their accomplice’s cell. After that, he hoped to escape from the secure facility. SSU counterintelligence officers uncovered the escape plan and prevented its execution," law enforcement officials said.
Investigators from the Security Service informed the agent that he was suspected of treason committed under martial law (Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
The suspect is being held in custody without the right to bail. He faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, previously, the Security Service’s military counterintelligence exposed another informant for the aggressor country, the russian federation, in Poltava. The perpetrator tracked the coordinates of the Defense Forces for the russians, based on which the enemy planned to carry out missile and drone attacks.
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