The Security Service of Ukraine has detained two more spotters who were guiding russian attacks at targets in Zaporizhzhia. One of them is the former head of the supply unit at a local defence plant, and the other is an unemployed draft evader.

The investigation revealed that the perpetrators acted independently but were part of an agent network that had one russian handler.

The main task the enemy gave them was to gather and pass information about local defenсe industry enterprises, as well as temporary locations of the Defence Forces.

It has been established that the former employee of the defence plant gathered intelligence through his former colleagues under the guise of friendly conversations.

The agent also tracked the movements of our troops near the front lines while going to his country house, located near the front line.

To pass through checkpoints unhindered, the suspect used his status as a father of many children.

Another perpetrator, who was evading mobilisation, rarely left his home. To gather intelligence, he used his wife without her knowledge.

At her husband’s request, she reported to him the locations where Defence Forces personnel and vehicles were concentrated, as well as their routes of movement.

The agents passed the information they had gathered to an FSB ‘liaison’ located in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine. He turned out to be an old acquaintance of theirs who had been involved in the remote recruitment of both traitors.

The Security Service documented the crimes and detained the suspects.

Computer equipment and smartphones containing evidence of activities on behalf of the enemy were seized during the searches.

SSU investigators have served the detainees with notices of suspicion under Article 28.2 and Article 111.2 of the CCU (high treason, committed by a group, acting in prior conspiracy under martial law).

The suspects face life imprisonment with confiscation of property.

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