Ukraine said it has arrested a soldier who leaked his live locations to Russian intelligence to help the latter adjust strikes on him and his unit – and got tipped off right before the strikes.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said the suspect is a 31-year-old driver serving in an assault regiment in Ukraine’s Kursk incursion who “was performing combat missions” in the region.
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In its Friday press release, the SBU said the suspect gave Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) remote access to his phone so the latter could track his movements at all times, where the FSB is said to have tipped off the suspect before an imminent strike.
The SBU did not say how the suspect was recruited, nor his motivations.
“On the instructions of the Russian curator, the ‘mole’ gave the FSB remote access to his phone so that the occupiers could track his geolocation online. In this way, the aggressor tried to use the traitor as a ‘living beacon’ for launching attacks on the Defense Forces,” the press release says.
“Before the shelling, the occupiers sent him a message asking him to urgently leave the fire zone,” it adds.
The SBU said the suspect later left his unit “voluntarily” and went into hiding in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city in the east next to the Russian border, where he awaited extraction to Russia when he was arrested by the SBU.
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The SBU said it seized the phone used to communicate with the FSB, adding that the suspect is charged with high treason under martial law and faces life in prison if convicted.
Earlier in May, the SBU claimed another soldier was arrested for supplying Russia’s Military Intelligence (GRU) with his unit’s location.
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