The SSU cyber units have exposed an FSB agent who, while serving a sentence in a penal colony in Lviv oblast, assisted in the preparation of a russian air attack on military and critical infrastructure of the region.

The ruscists were going to target transit points of the AFU’s heavy weapons and local thermal power plants.

To collect information and direct russian missiles and drones at Ukrainian targets, the prisoner tried to create his own agent network and planned to involve his close relatives and acquaintances ‘on the outside’.

The russian asset was supposed to pass all the intelligence received from them to his FSB handler.

For each completed assignment, the enemy intelligence service promised from USD 1,000 to 5,000, depending on the target’s significance.

The SSU timely blocked the traitor’s sabotage activity and thus derailed the aggressor’s efforts to prepare a new series of strikes.

According to the investigation, the suspect is a 48-year-old local resident who has been serving a sentence for a serious crime since 2019.

He came to the occupiers’ attention because of his comments in support of armed aggression against Ukraine, which he posted on Odnoklassniki social network.

The FSB then recruited the man remotely disguising the contacts as him meeting a woman, a russian citizen.

During the search, the SSU found a hidden mobile phone, which the convict used to communicate with the FSB.

SSU investigators have served him a notice of suspicion under five Articles of the CCU:

• 110.1 (encroachment on Ukraine’s territorial integrity and inviolability);
• 111.2 (high treason committed under martial law);
• 161.1 (violation of equality of citizens based on their race, nationality, regional affiliation, religious beliefs, disability and other grounds);
• 436 (propaganda of war);
• 436-2.2, 436-2.3 (justification, recognition as legitimate, denial of russia’s armed aggression Ukraine, glorification of its participants).

The offender is now facing life imprisonment.

The operation was carried out by the SSU Office in Lviv region under the procedural supervision of the regional Prosecutor’s Office.