“Leaked” the locations of the Third Assault: in Kyiv, the SBU detained an FSB agent

He wanted to get a job at a defense plant, spied on the Third Assault Brigade and “leaked” the coordinates of key energy and heat generating enterprises. In Kyiv, SBU officers detained an FSB agent. Now the attacker faces life imprisonment.

The press service of the SBU writes about this.

According to law enforcement officials, they managed to detain a 52-year-old resident of Kyiv, who in the fall of 2023 was remotely recruited by an FSB personnel officer in Moscow and the Moscow region.

The SBU says that from the very beginning, the Kiev resident communicated with an enemy intelligence official through one of the pro-Kremlin telegram channels. Next, the FSB representative communicated with the agent in an anonymous messenger chat, the name of which law enforcement officers do not note.

The SBU commented that the enemy agent’s primary task was to identify and transfer to the Russian Federation the location of the reserve command posts of the Third Assault Brigade and the headquarters of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.

In addition, the defendant provided the Russians with the coordinates of key energy and heat generating enterprises that provide light and heating to most of Kyiv’s civil infrastructure.

In order to identify the location of potential targets for the Russian Federation, the attacker walked around the streets of the capital and its environs and secretly photographed the necessary objects.

“According to SBU cyber specialists, his “reports” to the FSB contained information about both electrical substations and main power lines, as well as boiler houses of the Kievteploenergo enterprise. The invaders needed intelligence services to prepare a new series of targeted attacks on the military and critical infrastructure of Ukraine,” the SBU notes.

Moreover, on instructions received from the Russian intelligence service, the agent even tried to get a job at a defense plant in the capital region. For this purpose, the Kiev resident prepared a resume and sent it to the personnel department of the strategic enterprise. If he were hired, the attacker would have to collect secret information about the types and quantities of weapons produced at the defense facility's facilities.

However, the SBU promptly exposed the enemy agent’s intentions, documented his criminal activities and detained him while performing an intelligence mission.

“Based on the collected evidence, Security Service investigators informed the defendant of suspicion under Part 2 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The attacker faces life imprisonment,” law enforcement officers say.