The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) and the Prosecutor General’s Office have exposed sitting MP Fedir Khrystenko, a member of the now-banned Opposition Platform — For Life (OPZZh) party, as a traitor. According to case materials, he was a senior (resident) agent of Russia’s FSB and was tasked with expanding Russian influence over the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU).
He has been charged in absentia under the following articles of Ukraine’s Criminal Code:
- Part 2 of Article 28, Parts 1 and 2 of Article 111 (high treason committed by a group of individuals by prior agreement during wartime),
- Part 2 of Article 369-2 (abuse of influence).
After the full-scale invasion began, Khrystenko fled abroad and continues to influence the Bureau.
The investigation found that Khrystenko had been recruited by the FSB during the Yanukovych era and is currently closely linked with FSB resident Yurii Ivaniushchenko (known as "Yura Yenakiievskyi"), the Kremlin’s overseer of the so-called “DPR.” Khrystenko also had ties to collaborator Armen Sarkisyan (“Armen Horlivskyi”), who died in an explosion in an elite Moscow apartment complex in early 2025.
According to the SSU, Khrystenko was actively executing Russian intelligence tasks during the Revolution of Dignity, organizing “Anti-Maidan” rallies by using private transportation firms he controlled to move hired thugs (“titushky”).
The investigation also revealed Khrystenko’s ongoing contacts with certain NABU officials, including Ruslan Magamedrasulov, head of one of NABU’s interregional detective departments, who was arrested today on suspicion of doing business with Russia and maintaining ties with Russian operatives.
Khrystenko reportedly knew Magamedrasulov from their student days at Donetsk University.
Another link is Oleksandr Skomarov, head of a NABU detective division, with whom Khrystenko remains in close contact. In 2022, during the full-scale invasion, Skomarov’s wife crossed the border in a car owned by Khrystenko’s wife.
Skomarov had also participated in the competition to head the Bureau of Economic Security (BES). Investigators say oligarch Ihor Kolomoiskyi hoped that, if Skomarov won, he would use the position to help shut down a criminal case against him. This was confirmed by Kolomoiskyi’s correspondence with a subordinate.
Kolomoiskyi wasn’t the only oligarch Khrystenko tried to assist. It was documented that NABU detectives helped another businessman, Kolomoiskyi’s associate Hennadii Boholiubov, flee Ukraine. Two NABU staff members under Skomarov escorted Boholiubov across the border, sitting in a neighboring train compartment “for backup.” The operation was reportedly orchestrated by Khrystenko.
During searches of Khrystenko’s associates, investigators found NABU case materials, including secret surveillance documents and candidate profiles for NABU detective positions — evidence of Russian infiltration and systematic information leaks from the anti-corruption agency.
The SSU continues a comprehensive investigation to uncover the full extent of possible Russian intelligence infiltration into NABU.
The Prosecutor General’s Office is overseeing the case.
