Mykolaiv: SBU catches Russian agent who corrected Russian air strikes and tried to escape to Kherson region's left bank - SBU
Kyiv • UNN
In Mykolaiv, the SBU detained a Russian agent who directed air strikes and planned to escape after being recruited through relatives in the occupied Kherson region. He now faces life in prison for high treason under martial law.
The SBU detained in Mykolaiv an agent of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (known as Gru) who was preparing to "evacuate" after adjusting Russian air strikes on the city. UNN reports this with reference to the press service of the SBU.
Details
It is noted that the Russian agent was reconnoitering the positions and routes of the Defense Forces in Mykolaiv region. First of all, the defendant tried to identify possible locations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces air defense missile systems in the region.
To fulfill this task, he received UAH 10 thousand "advance" from the Russian player on his own bank card. Subsequent amounts were to be paid to the man as he provided new coordinates for the location and movement of Ukrainian troops.
The aggressor needed the intelligence to prepare new and adjusted repeated strikes on the region using missile weapons and Shahed-type kamikaze drones
After completing all the enemy's tasks, the occupiers promised to "evacuate" their accomplice to the left-bank part of Kherson region, where his parents lived.
However, SBU officers detained him on an attempt to pass intelligence to the invaders.
Addendum
According to the investigation, the detainee is a local resident who was remotely recruited by Russian military intelligence through his relatives. They live in the temporarily occupied part of Kherson region and have been cooperating with the Russian special services for a long time.
On the instructions of the invaders, the relatives gave the suspect the contact of a "curator" from the Russian game and "conditional phrases" that the traitor used to establish agent communication with the occupier.
Currently, SBU investigators have served the detainee a notice of suspicion under Part 2 of Article 111 (high treason committed under martial law) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
He is in custody. The attacker faces life imprisonment.
