Under the guise of a journalist, he spied on the Ukrainian Armed Forces: an enemy agent in the Kharkov region received 12 years in prison

In the Kharkov region, a sentence was passed on an FSB agent who, under the guise of a journalist, spied for Russia in the Kharkov region and Donbass. According to the SBU, whose employees exposed the traitor, he used the journalist’s credentials to collect intelligence about the Defense Forces and correct the aggressor’s air strikes on the border regions.

The attacker and three more of his accomplices were detained as a result of a special operation in March 2023.

Based on materials from the Security Service, the court sentenced the Russian agent to 12 years in prison.

According to the investigation, the enemy henchman turned out to be a resident of Druzhkovka, Donetsk region, who worked in the editorial office of one of the local newspapers. However, even before the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, he was preparing pro-Russian materials for one of the Kremlin’s mouthpieces, the Rossiya Segodnya media group.

Thus, the man came to the attention of the Russian special services, which attracted him to secret cooperation because of the honorary consul of Russia acting in Kharkov at that time.

Immediately after recruitment, the Russian agent arrived to his supervisor on the territory of the aggressor country and completed a special training course in reconnaissance and subversive activities. Then he was transferred to standby mode, and after February 24, 2022, he began to carry out enemy tasks. Among the agent’s main tasks was collecting information about the time and number of military echelons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that were moving towards the front line.

In addition, he recorded the consequences of enemy shelling in Kramatorsk, Druzhkovka and Konstantinovka, after which he sent appropriate “reports” to the aggressor to adjust the fire on Ukrainian cities, and reconnoitered the locations of firing positions, fortifications and ammunition depots of the Ukrainian troops.

Based on the collected evidence, the court found the attacker guilty under Part 3 of Art. 28, part 7 art. 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (“Collaboration activities”).

Currently, investigative actions are ongoing to bring to justice all participants in the intelligence network.

Let us remind you that in early October, based on materials from the Security Service of Ukraine, a Russian informant received 12 years in prison for correcting the attack on the largest market in Ukraine.