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The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has detained a sales representative of a food company in Odesa who, according to investigators, was gathering intelligence on Ukrainian National Guard locations, oil-refining facilities and port infrastructure at the direction of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).
The SSU reported this, according to Ukrinform.
The investigation found that the woman came to the attention of the Russian intelligence service after she sought additional income through Telegram channels.
After being recruited in a messaging app chat, the woman communicated with her Russian handlers through an intermediary – an employee of one of the departments of Russia’s occupation Interior Ministry in temporarily occupied Crimea.
Following his instructions, the suspect monitored the locations of Ukrainian military personnel and equipment and then marked them on Google Maps for subsequent reporting to the FSB.
The woman also separately recorded the locations of oil-refining facilities and major logistics hubs at the Odesa port.
To conceal her reconnaissance activities, she repeatedly changed public transport routes, photographing the locations of Ukrainian facilities from the windows with her phone.
SSU officers documented the suspect’s activities and detained her while she was conducting additional reconnaissance near a potential target.
During the detention, law enforcement officers seized her smartphone containing evidence of her work for the FSB.
Investigators charged the suspect under Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (high treason committed under martial law).
The suspect is being held in custody without the right to bail. She faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
As Ukrinform reported, the Security Service of Ukraine detained a man who, according to investigators, was preparing explosives caches for terrorist attacks in Kharkiv on orders from Russian military intelligence.
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