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This Tuesday, according to Ukrainian authorities, five former and current intelligence agents were suspected of having provided information to the Russian security services (FSB). The Ukrainian security services (SBU) indicated that the five members of this “enemy group” had been arrested.

Ukrainian authorities announced Tuesday that five former and current intelligence agents were suspected of having provided information to the Russian security services (FSB), saying they had "neutralized" this "powerful network" of Moscow. The Ukrainian security services (SBU) indicated that the five members of this “enemy group” had been arrested.

“Ukrainian citizens”

According to the Prosecutor General's Office, these are "Ukrainian citizens." One of them worked for a regional branch of the SBU and the other four had, in the past, been employed by the military intelligence of the Ministry of Defense (GUR) and the foreign intelligence service. The special services assured that they had thus “neutralized a powerful network of FSB agents” operating in Ukraine. According to them, their task was to transmit information to Russia about the Ukrainian army and the country's "critical energy infrastructure".

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"High treason"

One of them would also have relayed elements on the defense systems set up near Odessa, a port city on the Black Sea, and the multiple rocket launcher systems of Kharkiv, in the North-East, while both sites are regularly targeted by Russian strikes. The agents are suspected of “high treason” for having communicated this information for financial remuneration, the prosecutor’s office said.

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