The Security Service of Ukraine detained a Russian agent of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU), who was involved in adjusting the strike on Kharkiv on October 6, 2023.
The Security Service of Ukraine reported on this.
The SSU cyber specialists were able to expose a Russian GRU agent who was using a messenger app to transmit the coordinates of so-called geo-referenced targets to the Russian Armed Forces.
After that, the Russian invaders attacked the regional center using the Iskander missile system, killing two civilians, including a 10-year-old child.
In addition, dozens of civilians were injured. Several residential buildings in the Kharkiv city center also sustained significant destruction and damage.
According to the investigation, the traitor was a local resident of Kharkiv who worked as a foreman at a local company involved in the construction of highways and bridges.
The Russian secret service recruited him remotely via the Telegram messenger.
The traitor traveled around the city and the region under the guise of business trips and recorded the movement of Ukrainian troops in the region. He passed the information to the Russian GRU through a “liaison” from the temporarily occupied territory in the east of Ukraine. He turned out to be one of the former leaders of the LPR terrorist organization, nicknamed “Shaman,” who had previously been served a notice of suspicion by the SSU.
During the search of the traitor’s apartment, SSU officers discovered:
- 4 mobile phones and 7 sim cards of different mobile operators with evidence of correspondence with the aggressor;
- bank cards that received money transfers from the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation;
- more than USD 10 thousand of the proceeds of crime.
Based on the evidence collected, SSU investigators served the enemy agent a notice of suspicion under Part 2 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (high treason committed under martial law).
He is currently held in custody. The investigation is ongoing to establish all the circumstances of the crime. The offender faces life imprisonment.
The SSU officers in the Kharkiv region carried out complex measures under the procedural supervision of the Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
Militarnyi previously reported that the SSU counterintelligence officers detained an FSS agent who had taken a job at the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration.
The agent’s task was to collect and transmit information about the activities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the south.