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.
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.
Read also: