In the Donetsk region, the SSU Counterintelligence has detained an agent who simultaneously worked for the FSB and russian military intelligence agency (better known as GRU). The agent turned out to be an engineer at a local heating utility recruited by the enemy, who was adjusting the ruscists’ missile, bomb and drone attacks on Sloviansk.

As the investigation revealed, the ruscists recruited him via Telegram channel administered by a Smolensk military hospital female employee.

It has been established that the woman was in contact with both of the russian federation’s intelligence services, which tasked her with searching for potential ‘candidates’ for their agent network.

After being recruited, the utility worker used work trips as a cover to travel around the frontline town and its surroundings in order to identify the positions of the Defense Forces and ‘leak’ them to the ruscists to support further strikes on the community.

According to the case file, the suspect had been storing photographs and videos on his phones with the Ukrainian site's coordinates, intending to pass them to russian representatives.

SSU officers exposed the spotter in advance, documented his reconnaissance missions and contacts with the enemy, and, at the final stage of the operation, detained him at his place of residence.

Three mobile phones, which he had constantly changed to communicate covertly with ruscists, were found during the search of the detainee’s home.

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

The suspect faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property.

The operation was carried out by the SSU Office in the Chernivtsi region jointly with investigators from the SSU Main Directorate in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, under the procedural supervision of the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office.