According to the FSB,
the exposed spy missions had been plotted by Col. Oleg Akhmedov, who headed a
unit of Ukraine’s military intelligence in Kherson, southern Ukraine.
MOSCOW, April 15.
/TASS/. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Wednesday it had
detained two individuals in Crimea suspected of spying for Ukraine’s military
intelligence service.
"The Russian
Federal Security Service in the Republic of Crimea has thwarted the activity of
the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry aimed at
plotting and carrying out acts of sabotage and terrorism, stealing state
secrets and recruiting Russian nationals," the FSB Public Relations Center
reported.
The Russian
counterintelligence service has foiled the activity of agents recruited and led
by Col. Akhmedov of Ukraine’s military intelligence service in Kherson. The
group consisted of a Russian servicewoman, who is suspected of sharing state
secrets with Ukraine’s military intelligence agents in 2017-2018, and a
Ukrainian national, who allegedly spied on the orders of Ukraine’s special
service.
The FSB has released
a video showing that the Russian servicewoman and the Ukrainian national were
captured at home. During the search operation, the officers found banking cards
and a contract for military service with Ukraine’s Armed Forces.
Two criminal cases
into high treason and espionage have been opened against these individuals. The
Ukrainian national has been taken into custody. The woman has been placed under
house arrest due to humanitarian reasons, given that she has minor children.
According to the FSB,
the exposed spy missions had been plotted by Col. Oleg Akhmedov, who headed a
unit of Ukraine’s military intelligence in Kherson, southern Ukraine. The
suspects’ alleged espionage activity was revealed as part of investigating a
criminal case opened this January. One of the suspects in this investigation is
a Russian national, who had built caches in Crimea with rounds of ammunition
and explosives, which he had brought from Ukraine’s soil, on Akhmedov’s order.
The FSB says
"the Ukrainian military intelligence conspired to carry out several acts
of sabotage and terrorism at the facilities of critical social and military
infrastructure on our country’s soil." An investigation and a search
effort is ongoing.
Source: ITAR-TASS
15-04-2020
