The SSU has prevented a transfer of the latest Ukrainian technologies in the field of military shipbuilding to russian and iranian intelligence agencies.

As a result of a multi-stage special operation in Mykolaiv, a design engineer at a strategic Ukroboronprom’s enterprise has been detained ‘red-handed’.

The engineer covertly copied and tried to leak technical documentation on Ukraine’s secret developments to foreign intelligence services.

According to the SSU Counterintelligence, the traitor was going to pass the information to two ‘customers’ at the same time. The first was a russian who works at a russian machine-building plant and cooperates with the intelligence services of the aggressor state.

His second ‘interlocutor’, who ‘requested’ such information, was an iranian citizen who had previously been convicted of espionage in Ukraine.

He is currently in a Middle Eastern country working for Iran’s intelligence under the cover of a local high-tech company employee.

The two foreign nationals acted separately from each other, keeping in touch with the Ukrainian engineer through anonymous chats in messengers.

The hostile intelligence services hoped to obtain Ukraine’s latest developments in order to establish mass production of their own components for warships.

The companies that planned to use Ukrainian technologies were mainly russian plants that build vessels for the russian navy.

However, the SSU Counterintelligence was proactive – the perpetrator’s criminal actions were timely uncovered and documented. As a result, an attempt to transfer Ukraine’s strategically important developments to foreign states was thwarted.

During the search, the SSU seized a mobile phone used by the suspect to copy secret documents and communicate with the russian and iranian agents.

SSU investigators have now served him 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 investigation is ongoing.

The operation was carried out by the SSU Office in Mykolaiv region under the procedural supervision of Mykolaiv Specialized Defence Prosecutor’s Office of the Southern Region.