SBU exposes FSB informant who adjusted Russian strikes in Mykolaiv region
Kyiv • UNN
The 53-year-old construction worker passed information about the location of Ukrainian troops in Mykolaiv to the FSB. He was preparing coordinates for an attack with drones and missiles, for which he faces up to 12 years in prison.
Law enforcers exposed another FSB informant who was adjusting the aggressor country's air strikes on Mykolaiv region. This was stated by the Security Service of Ukraine, UNN reports.
Details
The suspect is a 53-year-old construction worker who was in contact with the blogger-agent of the FSB Sergey Lebedev (pseudonym "Shaggy"), who is hiding in Donetsk.
Investigators found out that using the man's coordinates, the occupiers were preparing a new combined attack on the regional center using Lancet kamikaze drones and cruise missiles.
The main targets of the enemy were the places of the largest concentration of personnel and military equipment of the Defense Forces. The Russian secret service also planned to obtain from the suspect the locations of air defense systems, in particular mobile fire groups defending the port city.
During the search, a cell phone with evidence of intelligence and subversive activities in favor of Russia was seized from the detainee.
The SBU investigators served him a notice of suspicion under Part 3 of Art. 114-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (unauthorized dissemination of information on the sending, movement of weapons, armaments and ammunition to Ukraine, movement, relocation or deployment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine). The offender is currently in custody. He faces up to 12 years in prison
Addendum
Law enforcement officers found out that it was through "Lokhmatyi" that the corrector received instructions from the Russian secret service to reconnoiter the locations of Ukrainian troops.
To do this, Lokhmatyi's accomplice traveled around the regional center and the surrounding area, where he tracked the geolocation of the Defense Forces. At the same time, he was trying to "secretly" solicit information about the Armed Forces from community members for whom he was fulfilling orders for repair work.
The SBU adds that the offender displayed the information on a Google map in the form of marks of Ukrainian objects to send a "report" to the FSB.
Recall
SBU detained a Russian informant in Bukovyna. He was preparing missile and drone strikes on the critical infrastructure of the region and was trying to join the Russian occupation groups.
