SBU detains FSB agent caught planning espionage network in Odesa Oblast
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) extracted and detained red-handed a Russian FSB security service agent from the self-proclaimed “Transnistria” (the Russian-occupied part of Moldova), who was trying to remotely recruit Odesa Oblast residents, including law enforcement officers, to establish his own espionage network in southern Ukraine.
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The agent was introduced to an active SBU female employee as a part of a counterintelligence operation. She agreed to cooperate and convinced the agent to come to Odesa Oblast. His crimes were meticulously documented.
The investigation revealed that the agent turned out to be a Ukrainian citizen who had gone to Moldova in the early 1990s, where he participated in the war on the side of the separatists of the self-proclaimed “Transnistria”. He later became an “internal forces” sniper controlled by Russia and was subsequently appointed to the 17th special forces "Edelweiss" group’s commander of the Russian Internal Affairs Ministry.
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The agent took part in pro-Russian riots in Odesa in 2014, and fled back to “Transnistria” after Ukrainian law enforcement declared him wanted, where he was recruited, trained, and given the call sign “Skif” [Scythian]. He began his hostile missions in 2023.
Deployments and movements of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Ukrainian southern frontline areas were of particular interest to him.
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The agent is currently in custody and faces possible life imprisonment under Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (treason committed during a state of war). The investigation is ongoing.
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