Counterintelligence officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) have detained in Kyiv a foreign agent of the FSB who transmitted classified information about Ukraine’s Defense Forces to the enemy and was preparing to carry out terrorist attacks. The SBU reported the incident.
According to the investigation, the detainee is a former military instructor from a European country who arrived in Ukraine at the beginning of 2024 to train mobilized Ukrainian soldiers. Later, he stopped this work and began looking for “easy money,” offering his services in pro-Russian online groups.
Through these channels, he established contact with an FSB officer, who, after recruiting him, began assigning espionage tasks.
Among the information the agent passed to Russia were:
details about foreign instructors of Ukraine’s Defense Forces with whom he had previously worked;
coordinates of Ukrainian Armed Forces training centers in southern Ukraine, where he had conducted training for mobilized troops.
To prepare for his next missions, the occupiers sent him instructions for making an improvised explosive device and coordinates of a weapons cache, from which he retrieved a pistol with two loaded magazines.
SBU counterintelligence officers exposed the agent in time, documented his crimes, and detained him at his temporary residence in Kyiv.
The suspect has been charged under Part 3 of Article 114-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — unauthorized dissemination of information about the deployment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during martial law.
He is currently in custody. The offender faces up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property.
The investigation is ongoing as law enforcement continues to establish all circumstances of the crime and identify possible accomplices.