KYIV: The Ukrainian Safety Service (SBU) has detained a married couple suspected of spying for Russia within the Black Sea metropolis of Odesa, one in all Ukraine‘s largest ports.
An SBU assertion issued on Thursday didn’t title the couple however accused them of gathering intelligence for Russia on areas for doable navy deployments and the motion of air defence models.
It stated the couple have been believed to be Russian navy intelligence officers who had deliberate to create a community of brokers in southern Ukraine.
SBU officers discovered cellphones and pc gear with proof of “hidden correspondence with the aggressor”, it stated.
“The SBU detained each spies after they tried to switch categorized data to Russia,” the SBU stated.
The couple couldn’t be reached for remark.
Odesa has continuously come underneath hearth since Russia invaded Ukraine in February nevertheless it stays underneath Ukrainian management.
The SBU stated each the person and lady detained had arrived in Ukraine in 2018 and acquired residence permits, and that the person had served within the Russian military.
It stated the detainees had despatched the knowledge they collected to a former Russian particular forces officer in Crimea who cooperated with navy intelligence. The Crimea peninsula was seized by Russia in 2014.
The SBU additionally printed a sequence of images of the couple’s arrest, the navy paperwork of the detained man displaying his navy rank as colonel, in addition to Russian passports of the detainees.
An SBU assertion issued on Thursday didn’t title the couple however accused them of gathering intelligence for Russia on areas for doable navy deployments and the motion of air defence models.
It stated the couple have been believed to be Russian navy intelligence officers who had deliberate to create a community of brokers in southern Ukraine.
SBU officers discovered cellphones and pc gear with proof of “hidden correspondence with the aggressor”, it stated.
“The SBU detained each spies after they tried to switch categorized data to Russia,” the SBU stated.
The couple couldn’t be reached for remark.
Odesa has continuously come underneath hearth since Russia invaded Ukraine in February nevertheless it stays underneath Ukrainian management.
The SBU stated each the person and lady detained had arrived in Ukraine in 2018 and acquired residence permits, and that the person had served within the Russian military.
It stated the detainees had despatched the knowledge they collected to a former Russian particular forces officer in Crimea who cooperated with navy intelligence. The Crimea peninsula was seized by Russia in 2014.
The SBU additionally printed a sequence of images of the couple’s arrest, the navy paperwork of the detained man displaying his navy rank as colonel, in addition to Russian passports of the detainees.
