Law enforcement officers have detained an employee of one of the regional offices of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) — an SSU major — who was passing classified information about Ukrainian operatives to Russia’s FSB. This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General.
According to the investigation, the SSU major, having access to official information systems, collected and transferred restricted information to a representative of Russian special services.
“This includes data on SSU officers involved in operational-search and counterintelligence activities, as well as information about facilities where relevant measures were conducted or planned,” the report states. The SSU employee was detained on May 12.
She is being prepared for notification of suspicion of treason committed under martial law (Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). Prosecutors will also request pre-trial detention as a preventive measure.
According to the SSU, the Russian agent was detained by the Internal Security Department of the Ukrainian special service following comprehensive measures in one of the frontline units.
“Officers of the Internal Security Department of the SSU have once again confirmed a high professional level. Systematic work on self-purification of the service and the Defense Forces as a whole continues. Exposing traitors and enemy agents remains one of my top priorities. Everyone who collaborates with the enemy will inevitably be held accountable,” said acting SSU head Yevhenii Khmara.
The investigation found that Russian intelligence recruited the official through her father — a resident of the occupied Berdyansk who collaborates with the Russian forces.
The father acted as a liaison and used messaging apps to instruct his daughter on collecting intelligence of interest to the FSB. The agent, in turn, recorded classified information on her smartphone at work or wrote it down in drafts. At home, she transmitted this information to the Russian side.
The agent sent the FSB data on operational cases and criminal proceedings conducted by the Ukrainian security service.
“The Russians were most interested in materials related to the exposure of their agent networks and propagandists, as well as the personal data of SSU officers conducting these investigations,” the SSU noted.
After all circumstances of the intelligence and subversive activity were established, she was detained. During a search, a smartphone containing evidence of cooperation with the FSB was seized.
The suspect faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property. The issue of notifying other individuals involved in this agent network is also being considered.
