Security Service of Ukraine detains FSB double agent who wanted to become mole

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has detained a secret spy of the FSB who tried to become a "double agent" and infiltrate the Ukrainian secret service.

Source: press office of the Security Service of Ukraine

Quote: "The SBU thwarted the enemy's plans to penetrate the secret apparatus of the SSU by a mole [a spy]. As a result of multi-pronged counterintelligence measures, SSU exposed the perpetrator, documented criminal activity, and identified her handler."

Details: The woman pretended to be a Ukrainian patriot and tried to butter up to the SSU. To fulfil the task of the FSB, she got in touch with a representative of one of the units of the SSU and offered her help in the fight against the aggressor state. In particular, she promised to provide the Ukrainian Special Services with up-to-date information on the activities of the Russian invaders in the temporarily occupied territory in Ukraine’s east.

However, SSU employees established that in 2019 she was recruited by the Russian FSB through fake authorities controlled by the occupiers in the temporarily occupied Luhansk Oblast. Ukrainian Counterintelligence officers misinformed the traitor, took her to the government-controlled territory and detained her.

The Security Service of Ukraine established that after the beginning of the full-scale invasion, she carried out the instructions of the aggressor regarding the detection of the routes and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of Luhansk Oblast. The woman also collected information about the location of members of the resistance movement in the Oblast, in particular in the occupied village of Markivka. She passed the information she had received to the occupation administration of the region so that they could carry out repressions against local residents.

The woman has been issued with notices of suspicion under Art. 111.2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (treason committed under martial law). She will be held in custody.

The double agent is to face up to 15 years in prison or life-long sentence.

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