Military counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine, in cooperation with the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, thwarted a new attempt by Russia to obtain coordinates of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' aviation infrastructure.
During a special operation in the Lviv region, a Major of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was detained, who turned out to be a Russian agent. The occupiers recruited him through his former wife, an ex-military who works for the Russian forces in Melitopol.
According to the case materials, the subversive activities of the “mole” were coordinated by a career officer of the FSB’s special operations unit “Alpha,” Oleksandr Belodedov.
The agent’s main task was to collect information about Ukrainian military aviation, specifically trying to obtain coordinates of operational airfields, logistics hubs, and maintenance centers for combat aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
If the Russian forces had obtained these geolocations, they hoped to carry out missile and drone strikes on them.
SSU officers exposed the “mole” in advance, documented his contacts with the Russian intelligence service, and arrested him.
The Security Service also took comprehensive measures to secure the locations of Ukrainian troops.
Based on the collected evidence, investigators of the SSU charged the agent under Part 2 of Article 28 and Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (state treason committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy during martial law).
The suspect is in custody and faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
Also, the suspect’s ex-wife, who is currently in the temporarily occupied southern part of Ukraine, was charged in absentia with state treason during wartime.
