The SSU Counterintelligence has prevented new attempts of the aggressor to strike the Defence Forces bases in Sumy oblast.

As a result of an operation, the SSU detained an FSB agent who was helping the enemy prepare a series of air strikes, including those with guided aerial bombs.

The occupiers planned to target the defensive positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a 5-km zone along the border.

To collect the intelligence, the agent had to track down the locations of Ukrainian troops, mark their coordinates on a map and send a ‘report’ to the FSB.

The asset tried to identify strongholds and establish locations of the Defence Forces units.

To do this, she walked in the border area and secretly recorded the ‘necessary’ sites on her own phone camera.

The SSU documented the crime and detained her ‘red-handed’ when she went on a new reconnaissance mission.

Simultaneously, action was taken to protect Ukrainian personnel, weapons and ammunition.

According to the investigation, the enemy accomplice is a local resident, an ideological supporter of ruscism. After the start of russia’s full-scale invasion, she expressed anti-Ukrainian sentiment on russian social media.

In this way, she came to the FSB’s attention and was later recruited.

At first, the traitor spied for the occupiers in the border area where she lived. However, after it was shelled by ruscists, the woman and her fellow villagers were evacuated to another village in Sumy region.

There, she registered as an IDP and planned to continue collecting intelligence on the Defence Forces for the FSB.

During the search, the SSU seized her mobile phones, used for communication with her handler.

SSU investigators have now served the detainee a notice of suspicion under Article 111.2 of the CCU (high treason, committed under martial law).

The suspect is in custody and faces life imprisonment.

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