The SBU reports the capture of two military personnel recruited by the GRU
Kyiv, April 25 (Navigator, Evgeniy Andreev) – SBU officers detained two Ukrainian citizens who, on instructions from Russian intelligence, carried out reconnaissance and subversive activities against Ukraine.
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The Service's press center reports this.
In particular, a serviceman of the Internal Troops, recruited by a GRU employee, had to receive and transmit to his supervisor information with limited access on the deployment and activities of the explosives.
On April 12, a serviceman was detained on the Kyiv-Simferopol train. A flash drive with secret information regarding communication schemes and special communications of explosives was confiscated from him.
In another case, the SBU detained a Ukrainian senior officer while attempting to enter Crimea.
“In March, a lieutenant colonel of the State Scientific Testing Center of the Ukrainian Air Force, located in Feodosia, was recruited as a GRU personnel officer. The recruit was given the task of trying to find a job at the Kiev Central Research Institute of Arms and Military Equipment of the Armed Forces.
Communication with foreign intelligence was organized through a mobile phone with a separate SIM card.
In Kiev, a recruited lieutenant colonel, during a meeting with his colleague, a soldier of one of the military units, photographed secret documents on a mobile phone without his knowledge, and also copied restricted materials from a laptop in the field of designing unmanned aircraft,” the report says.
During the inspection, a flash drive and mobile phones containing information marked “Secret” were confiscated from the detained officer.
Based on the mentioned facts, criminal proceedings have been initiated under Part 1 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code (high treason).
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