“The SBU neutralized a large-scale agent network of the Russian military intelligence, whose agents were focused on finding the location of the F-16 fighter jets. According to the SBU, the perpetrators spied on the Defense Forces in 5 regions of Ukraine. As a result of the special operation, 12 Russian agents and their informants were exposed. Some of them are deserters who voluntarily left the units of the Armed Forces, and when they hid from”, — write on: ua.news
The SBU neutralized a large-scale agent network of the Russian military intelligence, whose agents were focused on finding the location of the F-16 fighter jets.
According to the SBU, the perpetrators spied on the Defense Forces in 5 regions of Ukraine. As a result of the special operation, 12 Russian agents and their informants were exposed. Some of them are deserters who voluntarily left the units of the Armed Forces, and when they were hiding from justice, they were recruited by the Russian special service.
The members of the enemy cell acted separately from each other and focused on the resident (head) of the agent group, who was located in the Dnipropetrovsk region. For the conspiracy, he used fake “cover documents”, such as a fake “volunteer certificate” and “anti-corruption activist”.
To cooperate with the aggressor, he involved accomplices from Zaporizhzhia, as well as Kharkiv, Sumy, Mykolaiv, and Odesa regions.
In these regions, the perpetrators scouted the fire positions of Ukrainian air defense, tried to identify the locations of secret military airfields where, according to the Rashists, F-16 aircraft could be based.
A separate task of the enemy agents was to establish the addresses of companies involved in the production of means of radio-electronic warfare against Russian drones.
In order to obtain intelligence, those involved “undercover” used their acquaintances, in particular, Ukrainian military personnel who were in the front-line regions of Ukraine. In the case of receiving preliminary information, agents went to the area to conduct reconnaissance near potential targets.
At first, the members of the agent group “reported” to the resident, and then he passed the information on to his Russian curator. Military counter-intelligence of the Security Service exposed the entire enemy cell in advance, detained the organizer and informed his key accomplices of the suspicion. Currently, the issue of announcing the suspicion to other network members is being resolved.
During the searches, mobile phones, flash drives, military documents and fake identity cards were seized from them.
SBU investigators informed the detainees of the suspicion (according to the crimes committed) under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
◾️ h. 2 Art. 111 (treason committed under martial law);
◾️ h. 2 Art. 114-2 (unauthorized dissemination of information about the movement, movement or location of the Armed Forces).
Comprehensive measures are underway to bring to justice other members of the Russian intelligence network. Perpetrators face from 8 years in prison to life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
Complex measures were carried out by the military counterintelligence staff of the SBU together with the investigators of the Dnipropetrovsk SBU Department under the procedural guidance of the Dnipro specialized prosecutor’s office in the field of defense of the Eastern region.
Recently, the Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police detained six more agents of the Russian special services who committed arson in the Kyiv and Mykolaiv regions.
Earlier, in Dnipro and Slovyansk (Donetsk region), the Security Service and the National Police detained two henchmen of the Russian special services who set fire to military vehicles and facilities of Ukrzaliznytsia.
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