Cases of treason and espionage initiated: FSB stopped the activities of agents of the SBU and the Armed Forces of Ukraine in three regions of Russia

In three constituent entities of the Russian Federation, criminal activities to assist the SBU and the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been suppressed, the Center for Public Relations of the FSB reports.

“The Federal Security Service on the territory of a number of constituent entities of the Russian Federation suppressed the criminal activities of citizens of Russia and Ukraine who assisted the Security Service and the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the message says.

It is noted that operational-search activities were carried out in the Perm Territory, the Jewish Autonomous Region and the Rostov Region.

So, in the Perm Territory, an undercover group of the SBU was exposed, which included citizens of the Russian Federation Dmitry Strelkov, Mikhail Sokolov and Alexei Gashev.

Their tasks were "preparation, conduct of terrorist attacks and sabotage on the territory of Russia."

“These persons, acting on instructions from the SBU, carried out preparations for the commission of terrorist attacks and sabotage against socially significant objects and infrastructure of the city of Perm, and also provided other assistance to the Ukrainian special service in order to destabilize the socio-political situation in the region,” the FSB reported.

It is also noted that Strelkov was put on the All-Russian, federal and interstate wanted list.

Valery Kachin, suspected of committing high treason in the form of espionage in the interests of the SBU, was detained in Birobidzhan.

He tried to leave the region and fly abroad for permanent residence and acquisition of Ukrainian citizenship, as well as joining the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

According to the FSB, a 35-year-old man, on the instructions of the Ukrainian special services, collected and transmitted information constituting a state secret about critical infrastructure facilities in the Jewish Autonomous Region.

It is indicated that the detainee was aware that this information could be used against the security of the Russian Federation.

In the Rostov region, the illegal activities of a resident of the Volgograd region, Yevgeny Nikiforov, who intended to take part in military operations on the territory of Ukraine against Russian troops, were stopped.

During the detention, a signed questionnaire and an application for concluding a contract with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a “Gorka” (taslan) suit, and mobile phones used to communicate with subscribers in Ukraine were confiscated from him.

Also on russian.rt.com Ukrainian agent detained in the Rostov region was a HIMARS gunner

In addition, a citizen of the Russian Federation and Ukraine Vladislav Ponamarev, "involved by the SBU in confidential cooperation," was identified in the region.

He handed over to the Ukrainian side data on the deployment of Russian military personnel and information on the movement of military equipment.

As a result, the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a HIMARS MLRS missile strike at the transmitted coordinates.

“The investigative unit of the FSB of Russia initiated criminal cases against the above persons under Art.

275 (“Treason in the form of espionage”, “Treason in the form of providing other assistance to representatives of a foreign state”) and Art.

276 (“Espionage”) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

At the request of the investigation, he was chosen a measure of restraint in the form of detention, ”the release notes.

Countering activities that violate the state security of the Russian Federation

On December 19, it became known that a Ukrainian agent who was spying on the Black Sea Fleet received 12 years in prison.

We are talking about a citizen of the Russian Federation Yevgeny Petrushin, who, on the instructions of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, collected and transmitted information about the activities of the Black Sea Fleet in 2020-2021.

On December 13, the FSB reported that a resident of Abakan was detained at the airport in Krasnoyarsk while trying to travel through the territory of one of the CIS countries to Ukraine.

The purpose of the detainee was to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine to participate in hostilities against the Russian Armed Forces.

On December 8, two residents of Sevastopol were detained on suspicion of treason in the form of espionage in favor of the SBU.

One of them was recruited back in 2016 and was a “supporter of the Ukrainian ideology.”

For money, he transmitted information about the location of objects of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

In the summer, on the instructions of curators from the SBU, a man involved in espionage his acquaintance, who collected and transmitted data about the objects of the FSB of Russia through the messenger.