The SSU detained an FSB agent who adjusted missiles strike on the eve of 2023
4 December, 2023 SSU officer. Photo credits: SSU SSU counterintelligence detained an FSB agent involved in adjusting strikes on Kyiv on the eve of 2023.
The Security Service of Ukraine reported about this on the official website. The detainee was an FSB agent who had been recruited in Russia and sent to Ukraine to conduct reconnaissance and subversive activities. On December 31, 2022, one of the buildings of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University was struck by the coordinates given by the detainee to his curators.
Detention of an FSB agent.
Photo by: SSU
The suspect reconnoitered the locations of the Ukrainian Defense Forces headquarters, as well as took photos and videos of the locations of the Armed Forces units and their movements, and transferred them to his curators with geo-referencing. As a result of a special operation, SSU officers detected and detained the perpetrator in his apartment in Kyiv. According to the investigation, the enemy accomplice was a 40-year-old resident of Kyiv with pro-Kremlin views.
To assist the enemy, the detainee obtained a volunteer status and visited Russia through third countries after the beginning of full-scale war. While crossing the border with the Russian Federation, the man, on his own initiative, told an FSB officer that he was ready to cooperate with the Russian special service. To confirm his intention, he immediately told them the previously recorded coordinates, at which one of the units of the Defense Forces was allegedly stationed in the capital region.
A few days later, the enemy struck at the transferred coordinates. After that, FSB agents took him to Moscow, where they gave him a detailed briefing on working methods, conspiracy and priority tasks. The traitor was then sent to Ukraine for intelligence gathering.
The detainee and his pro-Kremlin paraphernalia found in his apartment.
Photo by: SSU
The FSB agents promised the traitor to help him obtain citizenship of the aggressor country, as well as to organize a timely evacuation to Russia. To obtain intelligence information in the Zhytomyr region, the detainee used his relatives who lived there. He was asking them secretly for the necessary information in everyday conversations and then transferred it to the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
In the capital, he took photos and videos of the necessary infrastructure, troop transportation, and what he believed to be the headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. During the search, the following was found in his apartment:
- Russian symbols;
- personal documents notarized in the Russian Federation that are necessary for obtaining citizenship of the aggressor country;
- a mobile phone, which contained his chatting with his Moscow "curator" from the FSB.
Based on the evidence collected, SSU investigators served the detainee a notice of suspicion under Part 2 Art.
111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (high treason committed under martial law). The offender is currently in custody.
He faces life imprisonment. As Militarnyi previously reported, the counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine detained a member of the agent network of the General Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia in Odesa. The perpetrator was taking photos and videos of the places where the Ukrainian Defense Forces were allegedly based.
She also transferred the geolocation of these places.
Using her coordinates, the invaders carried out targeted airstrikes using Shahed-type kamikaze drones.