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The detained face a life sentence.
In Donetsk region, the Security Service of Ukraine's counterintelligence neutralized an agent network of the Russian FSB. In Kramatorsk, four members of the cell were detained for following the enemy's orders to record the coordinates of the Armed Forces on the front-line city’s territory.
As the SBU explained, the priority targets for intelligence—set by the Russian special service for the agents—were reserve command posts, logistics depots, fortifications, and routes of the Armed Forces toward the front.
Also on the FSB's orders, the agents tracked the consequences of Russian shelling of Kramatorsk to prepare new strikes and to adjust subsequent blows on the city.
The Russians recruited three people through an old acquaintance who lives in Saint Petersburg and works for an employee of the 'FSB Directorate in the Donetsk People’s Republic'—Alexander Nogash.
One of the agents turned out to be a driver for a Kramatorsk housing and communal services company, who, under the pretense of business trips, drove around the city to identify and relay the locations of Ukrainian defenders to the enemy.
In addition, he sought potential candidates for further recruitment by Russian security officers.
Also in the hostile group was a local plumber and his wife, who rode around the city in their own car to record objects on a phone camera that, in their view, were used by the Armed Forces.
Detained suspects
Later, the intelligence couple recruited their friend—a local realtor—who on behalf of the FSB surveyed places where personnel were concentrated and the directions of movement of Donetsk defenders.
SBU officers uncovered all four, documented their crimes, and detained them at their places of residence.
During searches, smartphones and other electronic devices containing evidence of work for the FSB were seized from them.
One of the detainees
SBU investigators informed the detainees of the suspicion under part 2 of article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (state treason committed in a wartime state).
The detainees are in custody. They face a life sentence with confiscation of property.
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