The SSU has collected irrefutable evidence on another FSB agent.

The enemy accomplice is the former chief of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Vinnytsia region Anton Shevtsov, who has been living in the temporarily occupied Sevastopol since 2016 and has become a russian citizen.

On his own initiative, the traitor assisted the FSB in intelligence and sabotage activities against Ukraine.

He also passed his ‘recommendations’ on undermining the internal political situation in our country to ex-MP Volodymyr Sivkovych, charged with high treason.

According to the investigation, Shevtsov, after the full-scale invasion, personally developed the so-called ‘Plan for conducting sabotage work in Ukraine’ for the FSB.

An officer of the FSB’s 5th Service, M.Yu. Kosenko, was appointed as the supervisor of this ‘project’.

The ‘document’ includes the aggressor conducting a series of explosions at civilian infrastructure facilities in different regions of Ukraine.

According to the ‘scenario’, after the terrorist attacks, the ‘perpetrators’ were to be demonstratively detained and fabricated accusations on their involvement in the resistance movement were to be publicly voiced.

Further steps were to widely publicize these events in the information space through the main kremlin mouthpieces and controlled Telegram channels.

In this way, moscow planned to discredit Ukraine on the international arena in an effort to justify occupation of part of our country.

In addition to the described plan, Shevtsov jointly with a well-known pro-kremlin propagandist developed a ‘media project’ on pseudo-search for ‘Ukrainian prisoners of war’. Through the ‘project’ the enemy tried to create preconditions for recruiting relatives of Ukrainian defenders and discrediting Ukrainian political and military authorities. This ‘project’ was approved by the FSB supervisor M.Kosenko and his superiors.

The enemy agent also provided his FSB handlers with information on former officers of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, offering to engage them in reconnaissance and subversive activities against Ukraine.

The traitor made special emphasis on collecting intelligence on the amount of international military assistance to Ukraine and ways of supplying this aid.  

To do this, he tried to form his own network of informants in several regions of Ukraine. Primarily, former employees of the disbanded militia dismissed from service in 2014 were considered as ‘candidates’.

Moreover, Shevtsov submitted proposals to the leadership of the FSB’s 5th Service to create the so-called ‘First Ukrainian Volunteer Corps’ that would include captured Ukrainian soldiers.

The SSU has documented all stages of Shevtsov’s criminal activity and identified the circle of people he involved.

Based on the collected evidence, SSU investigators notified the russian agent of suspicion of high treason committed under martial law (Article 111.2 of the CCU).

The SSU is acting to bring the enemy accomplices to justice.

The SSU Office in Vinnytsa region carried out the operational and investigative activities under the procedural supervision of the regional Prosecutor’s Office.