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| Ukrainian spy caught trying to travel to Georgia faces up to 20 years in prison |
| 2024-04-21 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] A Ukrainian detained in North Ossetia faces up to 20 years in prison for espionage, the FSB border department in the republic reported on April 20. A criminal case was opened against a 36-year-old detained citizen of Ukraine under Article 276 of the Criminal Code (“Espionage”). If his guilt is proven, the Ukrainian faces up to 20 years in prison. According to the department, the detainee was collecting information about the location of personnel and military equipment of the Russian army in the Northern Military District zone. After which he sent it to the curator via messenger. As Regnum reported, on April 20, security forces detained a 36-year-old Ukrainian on suspicion of espionage. He tried to leave for Georgia through the Verkhniy Lars checkpoint. As it became known on April 5, on the territory of the LPR, FSB officers detained a man for transferring data about Russian border guards to Kiev. According to investigators, the man had been working for the SBU since 2019, helping the Ukrainian side establish the identities of Russian border guards. The SBU recruited him using the compromising evidence they had. At the end of March, FSB officers detained a Ukrainian citizen in the LPR, who was transmitting to the SBU data on the locations of Russian military members of the SVO. That same month, security forces detained a resident of Mariupol on suspicion of espionage. The detainee collected data on the location of Defense Ministry units in the DPR. She passed on the information she received to Ukrainian intelligence services on social networks. |
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