In Zaporozhye, the chief cybersecurity specialist turned out to be a Russian intelligence officer
A Russian intelligence officer who worked in the regional military administration was detained in Zaporozhye.
The SBU press service reports this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Counterintelligence of the Security Service detained another FSB informant in Zaporozhye. To carry out enemy tasks, the defendant got a job in the regional military administration in October of this year.
As the chief specialist of the OVA cybersecurity department, he tried to secretly obtain secret information about the deployment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and defense procurement in the region. To obtain secret information, the Russian “mole” tried to use his access to the servers of a government agency,” the report says.
The detainee turned out to be a resident of Zaporozhye, a radio engineer by training. Before that, he worked at one of the local enterprises providing maintenance of military equipment.
At the same time, he began to cooperate with Russia voluntarily.
“It has been established that in September of this year he, on his own initiative, offered his assistance to the occupiers in the war against Ukraine. He wrote about this in one of the Russian chat bots created to collect information about the movement of Ukrainian Armed Forces units in front-line regions.
Then a staff member of the FSB contacted him remotely and recruited him for cooperation. On instructions from the Russian intelligence service, the attacker secretly filmed the production facilities of the plant and the military equipment located there on his phone,” the Ukrainian intelligence service is indignant.
In addition, the intelligence officer “tried to find repair bases and other logistics centers of Ukrainian defenders on the territory of the regional center.”
He is currently under arrest and faces up to 12 years in prison.
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