Ukraine's Security Service detains FSB informant who worked through intermediary from Moscow-linked church – photo

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has detained a female FSB agent in Donetsk Oblast who had been working for the Russians through an intermediary from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP). The woman had been adjusting Russian attacks on Ukraine's Defence Forces in the oblast.

Source: press service of the Security Service of Ukraine

Quote: "The woman leaked geolocations of Armed Forces units near Kramatorsk.

Her intermediary was the former parish priest of a UOC-MP church in Donetsk Oblast, who had fled to the aggressor country at the beginning of the Russian full-scale invasion and started working for the FSB.

The SSU established that the woman was previously an assistant to the priest and had kept in touch with him after he escaped to Russia.

Early this year, the enemy informer travelled to the Russian Federation through EU countries to establish sabotage and reconnaissance activities."

Details: The woman met with her FSB handler, an ex-chief of artillery intelligence from the 110th Separate Guards Motorised Rifle Brigade, in the EU.

During the meeting, he briefed her, defined her main tasks, and set up communication channels through the UOC-MP priest.

After the meeting, the woman returned to Ukraine and began collecting intelligence information for Russia.

She transmitted the information she obtained to the Russian Federation via a previously set-up anonymous chat in a messaging app.

SSU employees documented the collaborator’s criminal activities and detained her at her home in the village of Krasnotorka.

While searching her home, the SSU seized a mobile phone and a tablet she had used to transmit intelligence to the Russian occupiers.

SSU investigators served a notice of suspicion on the woman. She was remanded in custody and faces up to eight years in prison.

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