The security service has gathered indisputable evidence of the guilt of two more Russian agents. They gathered intelligence about the deployment of the Defense Forces in the Luhansk direction and "handed over" the ATO members to the police.
One of the supporters of the enemy is the abbot of the UOC (MP) church in Lysychansk.
He conveyed to the occupiers information about the combat positions of Ukrainian troops on the city's territory, as well as in the Severodonetsk region.
First of all, the enemy was interested in information about the number of personnel and military equipment of the Armed Forces units.
He also "informed" the aggressor about local patriots who could potentially resist the occupying groups.
Law enforcement officers detained the perpetrator due to a special operation in April this year.
The court sentenced him to 12 years of imprisonment based on the collected evidence.
According to the investigation, the cleric was recruited by a representative of the Russian occupation army during a trip to the Russian Federation in 2014.
Since then, the leader of one of the LPR terrorist groups, who took an active part in hostilities against ATO forces in eastern Ukraine, was in constant contact with the priest.
After the start of the full-scale invasion, the abbot of the temple collected and transmitted to him data about the units of the Armed Forces.
The court found the defendant guilty under Part 2 of Art. 28 and Part 7 of Art. 111-1 (providing assistance to the armed forces of the aggressor country in the conduct of hostilities against the Armed Forces of Ukraine, perpetrated by a prior conspiracy by a group of persons) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
In addition, the SSU exposed another priest of the UOC (MP) in the Luhansk region, who voluntarily cooperated with the aggressor.
While in the temporarily occupied territory of the east of Ukraine, he gave the residences of members of the resistance movement, particularly former ATO fighters, to the Russians.
According to preliminary data, it was on his "tip-off" that the Russians kidnapped two Ukrainian patriots.
