The Counterintelligence of the Security Service has detained another agent from the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces (known as 'GRU'), who was gathering intelligence on the positions and movement routes of the Defense Forces in the Mykolaiv region.
Primarily, the perpetrator attempted to identify possible locations of the deployment of anti-aircraft missile defense systems of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the region. To accomplish this task, the enemy agent received an 'advance' of UAH 10,000 to his own bank card from his 'curators' from the Russian GRU. Subsequent amounts were supposed to be transferred to the perpetrator as he provided new coordinates of the basing and movement of Ukrainian troops.
The gathered intelligence was needed by the aggressor to prepare new and adjust repeated strikes on the region using missile weapons and kamikaze drones of the Shahed type. After completing all hostile tasks, the occupiers promised to 'evacuate' their accomplice to the left-bank part of Kherson region, where his parents lived.
However, the SSU thwarted the implementation of these 'plans' – they identified the location of the Russian agent and detained him while attempting to transmit reconnaissance information to the invaders.
According to the investigation, the detainee is a local resident who was remotely recruited by the Russian military intelligence through his relatives. They reside in the temporarily occupied part of Kherson region and have been cooperating with Russian special services for a long time.
Upon the instructions of the invaders, the relatives provided the perpetrator with the contact of the 'curator' from the Russian GRU and 'conditional phrases' that the traitor used to establish intelligence communication with the occupier.
During the search, the detained person's mobile phone, which he used for communication with the aggressor, was seized.
Currently, the Security Service investigators have informed the detainee about the suspicion under Part 2 of Article 111 (state treason committed in conditions of martial law) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
He is in custody, and the perpetrator faces life imprisonment.
