Overview

• Ukraine’s Security Service arrested a 24-year-old former Kyiv university student and his father on July 9 for allegedly attempting to smuggle classified RK-360MC Neptune cruise missile documents to China.
• Investigators say the younger suspect recruited a Ukrainian national with access to weapons development to obtain technical files for transfer to his father’s network.
• The elder suspect, reportedly linked to China’s security services and General Staff, traveled to Kyiv on July 7 and visited the Chinese embassy before being detained.
• Both men are in pre-trial detention, their electronic devices have been seized, and they face up to 15 years in prison under Article 114 of Ukraine’s espionage law.
• Beijing has dismissed the allegations as groundless, and Ukraine’s counterintelligence continues its probe as tensions rise over military technology transfers.