Following SSU investigation, a russian agent, who was planning terrorist attacks against Ukrainian military personnel in Khmelnytskyi, was sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property.

According to the investigation, russian orders were carried out by a 32-year-old local resident with a criminal record for theft and drug trafficking.

While looking for “easy money,” he came to the attention and was recruited by a head of the FSB unit in the Republic of Crimea.

Following instructions from a russian special services officer, the agent was to make several improvised explosive devices to carry out terrorist attacks near an administrative building of the Territorial Recruitment Center and the National Guard unit in the city of Khmelnytskyi.

SSU officers detained the perpetrator red-handed in February this year, when he was conducting reconnaissance near the military facilities to plant explosives.

According to the findings, before carrying out the main task, the FSB officer tested the agent with assignments, such as identifying the locations of the Defense Forces in the city.

To do this, the suspect walked around the regional center and its surroundings, where he recorded the locations of military facilities on his phone camera and sent the collected data to his handler.

A search found a smartphone used by the agent to spy on Ukrainian defenders and contact the FSB.

Based on the evidence collected by SSU counterintelligence officers and investigators, the court found him guilty under Article 111.2 of the CCU (treason committed under martial law).

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