The security service prevented a series of missile and drone attacks by the aggressor on the military and critical infrastructure of the Rivne region.
As a result of a special operation, an FSB agent was detained in the regional center, who was preparing coordinates for an enemy attack.
While driving his car, he drove around the city and at the same time recorded possible locations of the Defence Forces with his mobile phone camera.
Thus, the defendant hoped to scout out the locations of potential targets, including military hospitals.
SSU officers received information about the agent’s intelligence activity in advance and gradually documented his every step.
This made it possible to secure the deployment points of the defense forces and catch the defendant red-handed when he was conducting additional reconnaissance near Ukrainian defenders.
A gadget was seized from the detainee’s car, with which he secretly filmed military installations of the Defence Forces.
According to the investigation, the enemy henchman turned out to be a native of the temporarily occupied Crimea. He had lived in the city of Rivne for a long time, where he was engaged in international transportation of commercial goods.
Before the start of a full-scale war, the man regularly visited the Ukrainian peninsula, where his relatives remained. During one of these trips, the defendant was recruited by an employee of the occupation “FSB department in Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.”
After February 24, 2022, she remotely “activated” her agent to conduct reconnaissance and subversive activities in favor of Russia.
In addition to pointing Russian missiles at the territory of the Rivne region, he also monitored the movement of military convoys with heavy equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces along the highways of the western region.
Based on the collected evidence, Security Service investigators informed the detainee of suspicion under Part 2 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (high treason committed under martial law).
The attacker is in custody. He faces life imprisonment.
The special operation was carried out under the procedural leadership of the Rivne Regional Prosecutor’s Office.