According to Ukrainian intelligence, “a powerful agent network” consisting of spies recruited by Russia’s military counterintelligence service” must have been rolled up and neutralized.
The unfaithful servants were arrested in a larger, coordinated special operation that was carried out in several Ukrainian cities, writes Ukrainska Pravda.
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According to the investigation, at least one of the foreign intelligence officers was recruited by the Russian security service FSB before Putin ordered full-scale war in Ukraine.
Chart how and where foreign weapons were transferred
Here one of the arrested double agents is led away. Photo: Ukrainian Security Service
The previously unknown agent network was tasked with collecting data and forwarding intelligence about the Ukrainian defense forces, and about strategically important energy facilities in Ukraine, writes Moscow Times.
This information may have formed the basis for the terrorist bombing of civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, which has led to enormous suffering and destruction.
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They are also said to have mapped information on how and where foreign weapons are transferred to Ukraine. This is highly sensitive information, which has given the Russians insight into possible bomb targets to sabotage Western arms aid.
Was recruited using death threats and rewards
They are also said to have passed on classified information to the FSB about the operation and safety systems of the Rivne and Khmelnytskyij nuclear power plants.
The agents are said to have been recruited by using, among other things, death threats aimed at family members. For each mission they solved, they should have been paid a reward, reports the Ukrainian security service Telegram.
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The five spies are said to have had the same contact person, i.e. an FSB officer who stayed on the Crimean Peninsula.
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How the double agents worked: Avoided the phone
The agents worked as moles within the Ukrainian intelligence service, and were on their payroll. In this way, they gained access to sensitive information, while at the same time handing this information over to their Russian client.
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In this way, the double agents are said to have undermined Ukraine’s security and put both military and civilian Ukrainians in great danger.
The unfaithful servants are said to have operated in a way that made it difficult to reveal the espionage. Instead of using the phone, the agents are said to have sent the secret data to the Russian intelligence service by hand. This is said to have happened through the use of straw men who traveled abroad and reported on to other security agents in the Russian secret service.
Indicted for high treason
The Ukrainian security service has released several photos of the arrests in several Ukrainian cities. Photo: Ukrainian Security Service
Particularly sensitive information is said to have been transferred via a so-called flash drive with the help of smugglers, but this is also a method that can be vulnerable to hacking and cyber attacks.
Among the five arrested, all of whom were part of the secret double-agent network, were former Ukrainian intelligence officials and employees of the regional security service office in Kyiv.
All will now be charged with high treason in an upcoming trial. The images in the article were released by the Ukrainian Security Service and show the arrests.
2024-02-10 06:57:41
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