Russian intelligence agent sentenced to 15 years in prison for espionage in Zaporizhzhia
Kyiv • UNN
A Russian military intelligence agent has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for adjusting strikes on the Zaporizhzhia region. He provided the occupiers with the locations of civilian buildings and critical infrastructure facilities, which led to civilian deaths and destruction.
Another agent of Russian military intelligence (better known as GRU), who spied for the enemy in the Ukrainian-controlled territory of Zaporizhzhia region, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. This is reported by UNN with reference to the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU).
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As the investigation established, the perpetrator adjusted missile, bomb, drone, and artillery strikes of the Rashists on the frontline villages of the region.
According to the investigation, the enemy tasks were carried out by a security guard of a local kindergarten recruited by the occupiers.
To involve the man in cooperation, the Russian GRU used his acquaintance – a choirmaster in a UOC (MP) church, who fled to the temporarily occupied part of the region and joined the Russian intelligence network. It was through her that the traitor maintained contact with his handler, with whom he coordinated his intelligence and subversive activities.
It was established that the agent transmitted to the occupiers the locations of civilian buildings and critical infrastructure facilities in the region.
As the investigation established, at his direction, at the end of 2023, the Rashists shelled residential buildings in the village of Stepnohirsk. As a result of the enemy attack, a 43-year-old civilian was killed, and many private homes were completely destroyed.
The SSU counterintelligence detained the traitor in January 2024. During searches, a smartphone with an anonymous chat in a messenger, from which he contacted the "liaison" of the Russian GRU, was seized from him.
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