In Kyiv region, the SSU Military Counterintelligence and the SBI have detained a collaborator who tried to join Ukrainian Air Assault Forces in order to collect intelligence for the enemy.

On the aggressor’s instructions, the mole was to find out locations of Ukrainian paratroopers’ training centres and identify approximate number of personnel trained.

Later on, the spy planned to go to the frontline and provide the occupiers with geolocation data of Ukrainian combat positions and intelligence on movement of our air assault units.

However, the SSU identified the offender timely, documented his criminal actions and detained the suspect at the stage of his enlistment to the Defence Forces.

The offender is a resident of Kherson, who supported russian invaders during the city’s occupation and offered his assistance in the war against Ukraine.

For this, he was appointed a ‘senior instructor and K-9 specialist of the security unit’ in the occupation ‘Hola Prystan correctional colony’.

In this ‘position’, the collaborator was training units that escorted abducted locals to russian prison cells.

It was then that he came to the attention of russian intelligence agencies, which recruited him for covert cooperation.

After Kherson’s liberation, the enemy accomplice was instructed to lay low and later move to Kyiv region.

There, the enemy asset was to apply to the local military enlistment office, enroll to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and start his ‘work’ for the aggressor.

Now the detained individual has been served a notice of suspicion under Article 111-1.1 of the CCU (collaboration).

The suspect is in custody, facing up to 15 years in prison.

The investigation is ongoing. His criminal actions may be additionally qualified in the future – as high treason committed under martial law.

The operation was carried out under the procedural supervision of Ternopil Region Prosecutor’s Office.