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Euromaidanpress
Euromaidan Press
27 Mar 2024
Yuri Zoria


Ukraine detains two suspected FSB agents gathering intel for strikes on Kyiv TV tower, power plant, military HQ

Kyiv announced the detention of two suspected Russian agents spying on potential missile strike targets like the capital’s TV tower, thermal power plant and military units on orders from Moscow’s FSB intelligence agency.
Russia’s Kyiv TV Tower missile strike on 1 March 2022. Screenshot from a CNN video

Ukraine’s security service (SBU) announced the detention of two more suspected Russian spies, who allegedly provided critical intelligence enabling Moscow’s missile strikes against military and civilian targets. Among the locations cased by the FSB agents were the Kyiv TV tower and Ukrainian army headquarters units.

According to the SBU’s statement, the arrests come over two years after the Russian accomplices first conducted surveillance identifying potential high-value sites like the capital’s TV transmission infrastructure, power plants, and strategic army positions. The suspects were preparing missile attacks on military units of the Defense Forces and energy and telecommunications facilities in three regions, as per the SBU.

SBU says the agents targeted army units safeguarding the Army’s General Staff, collected data on Defense Forces in Poltava Oblast, and surveilled critical infrastructure in Kyiv like the TV tower and the thermoelectric power plant.

One of the perpetrators, a technology engineer at an Odesa food company supplying Ukraine’s military, had infiltrated his workplace to monitor troop movements and concentrations in Poltava Oblast,” the SBU said.

Another suspect, a 24-year-old Kyiv resident, provided information on the technical condition of the Kyiv TV tower after it was damaged in the 2022 missile strike and photographed a thermal power plant supplying electricity and heat to the capital region. This data was allegedly sought by Russia to plan subsequent strikes on the power plant and TV tower, SBU says.

At the end of January this year, they were remotely recruited by an FSB officer in Moscow and Moscow region. The SBU has already identified him. Both agents acted separately from each other and received a monetary “reward” from Russia for their cooperation in favor of the aggressor country,” SBU says.

The Agency says they received cash payments for their espionage efforts pinpointing locations like army bases housing General Staff units, the TV tower, and electrical grid components across Kyiv, Odesa, and Poltava oblasts.

The SBU says its counterintelligence officers apprehended the two red-handed as they continued surveillance of designated targets. The Ukrainian security service says it tracked the agents’ communications with their Russian handler.

Both perpetrators are in custody, facing charges of treason under martial law that carry potential life sentences, the SBU stated.

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