A security guard at a local kindergarten who coordinated Russian strikes on Zaporizhzhia Oblast has been sentenced to 15 years in prison, the Security Service of Ukraine reported on 22 September.

The investigation established that the perpetrator coordinated rocket-bomb, drone and artillery strikes by Russian forces on front-line settlements in the region, according to the SBU.

According to the investigation, the hostile tasks were carried out by a recruited security guard of a local kindergarten. To involve the man in cooperation, Russian military intelligence used his acquaintance — a choir member in a UOC (MP) church who fled to the temporarily captured part of the region and joined the Russian Federation’s agent network.

“It was through her that the traitor maintained contact with his handler, with whom he coordinated his reconnaissance and sabotage activities,” the SBU reported.

The investigation found that the agent transmitted to Russians the locations of civilian buildings and critical infrastructure facilities in the region. The investigation established that following his guidance, Russians shelled residential buildings in Stepnohirsk settlement at the end of 2023. As a result of the enemy attack, a 43-year-old civilian died and many private homes were completely destroyed.

SBU counterintelligence detained the traitor in January 2024. During searches, they seized a smartphone with an anonymous chat in a messenger through which he contacted the GRU RF “liaison.”

SBU counterintelligence detained earlier two Russian agents in Kyiv Oblast who were transferring Ukrainian SIM cards for drones to Russia on FSB orders.