The Security Service of Ukraine reported on Wednesday that it had detained in Kyiv a former official who was an FSB agent who collaborated with a terrorist beekeeper and offered to join the eastern regions of Ukraine to the Rostov region of the Russian Federation, UNN reports.
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The Security Service's counterintelligence service reportedly detained an FSB agent in Kyiv who was conducting information sabotage against Ukraine. It turned out that this person has a background as a Ukrainian official who previously worked in the Ministry of Fuel and Energy, the State Committee for Reserve and the Ministry of Coal Industry.
After his dismissal from the civil service in 2014, according to the SSU, he acted as a "political expert" and author of publications praising the Kremlin's aggressive policy toward Ukraine. He maintained contact with one of the heads of the 5th FSB service, who coordinated his information and subversive activities against Ukraine, the SSU said.
According to the SSU, this Russian agent also cooperated with the terrorist beekeeper, providing him with "expert" recommendations on how to intensify repressions against Ukrainian patriots in the temporarily occupied Luhansk. In addition, he actively published posts on social networks in which he proposed to "annex" the eastern regions of Ukraine to the Rostov region, the SSU noted.
SSU CI officers documented the facts of the criminal activity of this Russian agent and detained him in his own home. A comprehensive forensic psychological and linguistic examination confirmed that the documentary materials prepared by the suspect at the request of the FSB were aimed against the state security of Ukraine.
During the searches, the defendant was found to have a "reward for cooperation" from representatives of the aggressor state, as well as prohibited communist and pro-Kremlin symbols.
The SSU served the agent a notice of suspicion under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine: Part 1 Article 111 and Part 1 Article 161. The SSU has chosen custody as a measure of restraint. The offender faces up to 15 years in prison.