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SBU Foils Three Russian Espionage Schemes With Detentions in Kyiv, Dnipro and Dnipropetrovsk

Three recent detentions show Kyiv’s push to disrupt Russian networks gathering targeting data, planning terror attacks, installing surveillance for airstrikes.

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Overview

  • A mobilized serviceman from the State Special Transport Service was arrested in Dnipropetrovsk region on charges of high treason after transmitting his own unit’s geolocation and nearby Defense Forces coordinates to GRU handlers via messaging apps.
  • A 29-year-old woman recruited through Telegram was detained in central Dnipro after retrieving an improvised explosive device and scouting a law enforcement building for a planned terrorist attack.
  • In Kyiv, SBU agents arrested a 24-year-old IT specialist who installed remote-access cameras in rented apartments overlooking air defense positions and railway tracks to feed FSB precise targeting information.
  • Investigators seized phones, geolocation data, improvised explosives and video surveillance devices as evidence in all three operations, each uncovered before any strike or bombing could be carried out.
  • All suspects have been charged under martial-law statutes for high treason or terrorist preparation and now face sentences ranging from 12 years to life imprisonment with asset confiscation.