The Ukrainian Security Service has detained a National Guard servicewoman on suspicion of passing classified information to Russian special services, Ukrainian Security Service chief Vasyl Hrytsak said.
“A servicewoman of the Ukrainian National Guard who had access to secret information was detained on October 5, 2017. This is a woman who served at the National Guard’s central storage base […] The servicewoman’s name is Rodionova,” Hrytsak said at a news briefing in Kyiv on Oct.11.
“She passed along a substantial amount of restricted-access information. As you understand, regardless of what she did at the Ukrainian National Guard’s central storage base, having access to restricted-access information, she did harm to Ukraine’s defense capability,” Hrytsak said.
Russian special services recruited the woman in the summer of 2016, trained her to encrypt information and provided her with special equipment, he said.
The detained suspect is now actively collaborating with the investigation, Hrytsak said.
