The SSU has detained an FSB agent who promoted Russkiy Mir in Ukraine. He had previously worked for Russian intelligence spying on Lukashenko regime.

Russian special services deployed him to Ukraine to:

• search for dual-purpose microbiology labs;
• collect information on social and political situation in Ukraine;
• conduct information operations for the aggressor state.

The SSU established that previously this agent was collecting insider information for the FSB on Lukashenko and his sons, opposition parties, Belarusian security forces, etc.

The SSU Counterintelligence detained the spy when he was spinning two Kremlin narratives in the media:

• ‘Ukraine is immersed in total nationalism and this bothers its normal citizens’;
• ‘Ukrainians must provide assistance to Russian occupiers, who will liberate our land’.

According to the investigation, the agent had nickname ‘Gelen’ and was handled by the FSB officer Aleksandr Vyacheslavovich Shchipitsin, who works at Kazan Institute of Eurasian and International Studies under the cover documents of Shipulin Aleksandr Vladimirovich.

The SSU also established the agent’s coordinator in Moscow: officer of the FSB’s 5th Service of Operational Information Department Khrustalev Sergei Nikolaevich.

Currently, Counterintelligence Department and investigators are working with the detainee, who has been taken into custody.