SBU exposes traitor within Ukrainian Armed Forces

Military counter-intelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine detained a man who, according to the investigation, was spying on the combat aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Mykolaiv Oblast. He was allegedly recruited by the Russian special services in the temporarily occupied Crimea, Ukraine's Security Service reports.

A resident of Crimea turned out to be an "enemy informant", law enforcement officers write. In 2014, he allegedly supported the occupiers and remained on the peninsula, where he received a Russian passport and entered the military register of the occupiers.

It is noted that later a representative of the Russian special service contacted him and offered secret cooperation.

Before the start of Russia's large-scale invasion, the man arrived in Mykolaiv Oblast, where his relatives live, the SBU writes, and last year he was mobilized to the Armed Forces of Ukraine to "gather intelligence on the locations and movements of Ukrainian troops."

The investigation is sure that in one of the military units, the suspect spied on the movement of combat aircraft, air defense positions, and collected information about warehouses with ammunition and fuel and lubricants.

The traitor used an anonymous messenger, transmitted data to the occupiers through his ex-wife, who lives in Crimea and "is in the field of view of the Russian special services," the SBU said.

He was detained while carrying out an enemy mission.