Ukrainian security agents thwart Russian missile strikes on vital rail links, military infirmaries
Ukraine’s SBU security service prevented a missile attack on the infrastructure of Cherkasy Oblast after detaining a Russian agent, the agency’s press service reported on Telegram on Feb. 19.
He was supposed to transfer the coordinates of warehouses with weapons and ammunition for Ukrainian troops to the Russian forces.
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The main task of the collaborator was to identify the hub railway stations used by the Ukrainian military to transport equipment to the front.
The Russian military planned to launch missile and drone strikes on these facilities using this information, and thus destroy the logistics routes for the supply of weapons and ammunition to the front line. This would have allowed Russian to strike at the sites where the largest number of Ukrainian troops were concentrated.
The enemy also requested the locations of military infirmaries where wounded Ukrainian soldiers are being treated.
SBU officers detained the agent, a 45-year-old native of Luhansk Oblast, in his apartment. The man moved to Cherkasy Oblast in April 2022 as an IDP. However, in early 2024, he was recruited by a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (GRU) through an acquaintance, a soldier in a Russian unit currently stationed in the temporarily occupied part of Luhansk Oblast.
The defendant transmitted intelligence in the form of photos with descriptions of Ukrainian infrastructure and geolocation coordinates via anonymous messenger chats. He received a monetary reward for his work.
The SBU investigators have charged the collaborator under Part 2 Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. He faces life imprisonment.
The SBU security service also reported on Feb. 15 the detention of a traitor from Mykolaiv who planned to transfer Ukraine's latest developments in the field of military shipbuilding to Russia and Iran.
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