SSU Uncovers FSB Network Within Ukrainian Intelligence

They are detained and suspected of treason.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) stated that it had neutralized the Russian FSB defence intelligence spy network which included current and former employees of the Ukrainian special services.

As reported by the SSU on Tuesday, February 6, a total of five members of the group were detained during a multi-stage special operation. Among them are GUR (Ukrainian Defence Intelligence) ex-officials, agents of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine and an employee of the SSU Regional Department.

"The task of this spy network was informing the aggressor intelligence services about the Defense Forces and strategically important energy facilities of our state," the SSU commented.

Law enforcement officers said that the defendants had a common supervisor — an FSB officer who lives in the occupied Crimea. The Russian special service recruited them, in particular, threatening to kill their families. The group members also received money for this.

According to the investigation, the former officer of foreign intelligence was recruited even before the full-scale invasion of Russia, when he was in the service. Since then, he has been collecting information on the locations of the Ukrainian military, and after February 24, 2022, on the channels for the transfer of foreign weapons to Ukraine, according to the SSU.

Also, the defendant gave the FSB secret information about the features of the work and security system of the Rivne and Khmelnytsky nuclear power plants. He provided all the data through an accomplice who travelled abroad as a volunteer and personally reported to a resident of the Russian special service, and he provided particularly sensitive information on a flash drive through smugglers from the border regions of Ukraine, the SSU added.

Another Russian agent who previously served in the GRU (Russian military intelligence), according to law enforcement officers, leaked personal data of Ukrainian defenders to Russia.

Another defendant, an employee of the SSU, was disclosing to the occupiers the geolocation of fortifications and engineering barriers near the coastline of the Odesa region.

Five members of the SSU spy network are suspected under Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (high treason). They imposed preventive measures in the form of detention for them.

All the suspects are detained now.