A 57-year-old woman working for a city council in southern Ukraine’s Mykolaiv region has been arrested for sending troop locations to Russian intelligence, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said on Tuesday.
The SBU said the woman recorded equipment movements to the front and sent new locations of the troops to a chatbot managed by an agent called Serhiy Lebedev, who then collected the information and relayed it to both the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and its military intelligence agency.
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“According to the case materials, the traitor tried to identify the ‘new’ locations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units, where they moved from their standard bases after the start of the full-scale war,” the SBU said in its press release.
“Also, during reconnaissance sorties, the agent recorded the routes, number, and names of the Defense Forces’ military equipment heading to the front line,” it added.
The SBU said the suspect was an “employee of one of the departments of the Pervomaisky City Council” in the Mykolaiv region, while the chatbot manager, Lebedev, is an agent hiding in Russian occupied parts of the Donetsk region.
The SBU said it arrested the suspect during a meeting with her boss and colleagues, presumably at the council, and seized “computer equipment and mobile phones” she reportedly used to record the intelligence and communicate with the Russian intelligence.
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The suspect is charged with high treason during martial law and faces life in prison with confiscation of property, the press release says.
On Tuesday, the SBU also claimed responsibility for the April 25 assassination of Russian Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalikin the Moscow region via a car bomb. Moskalikin served as Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff’s Main Operational Directorate,
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