Safety Service of UkraineA senior determine in Ukraine’s intelligence service (SBU) has been arrested on suspicion of working as a Russian agent.
The service didn’t identify the person, who it stated was chief of workers of its anti-terrorism centre, however Ukrainian media quoting sources within the SBU say he’s Col Dmytro Kozyura.
Native media confirmed him handcuffed whereas being arrested by SBU head Vasyl Malyuk.
An announcement stated there have been no less than 14 cases through which the suspect, who it described as a “rat”, had collected and transmitted info to Russia. The SBU stated the investigation concerned audio and video monitoring, in addition to having access to cell phones and computer systems.
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukraine has introduced quite a few operations to show Russian brokers on its soil.
Malyuk had been personally concerned within the investigation into the suspect and headed the operation to arrest him, the SBU assertion stated, including that he reported instantly on its progress to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
It stated Russia’s Federal Safety Service (FSB) recruited him in Vienna in 2018. He was “mothballed” for a number of years and his handlers solely resumed contact with him final December.
“Due to encrypted programme bookmarks, we obtained into the traitor’s devices – cell terminals, computer systems,” Malyuk stated in a video assertion posted on the SBU web site.
“We mainly lived with him, carried out audio and video monitoring. Within the technique of all this, we managed to effectively doc the gathering and transmission of related info by the traitor to the enemy.”
Malyuk added the SBU had been feeding Moscow disinformation in the course of the course of the investigation.
“The self-cleansing of the SBU continues. Regardless of how the enemy tries to penetrate our ranks… he will be unable to do it efficiently. As a result of we detect them in a well timed method, doc them and detain them.”