Overview

• Ukraine’s Security Service detained an Air Force major on July 30 for allegedly working as a Russian military intelligence agent within the Ukrainian defense forces.
• The SBU says the flight instructor provided Moscow with coordinates, schedules and deployment sequences of F-16, Mirage 2000 and Su-24 jets to facilitate strike planning.
• He is accused of compiling an analytical report recommending tactics for combined missile and drone attacks aimed at bypassing base defenses.
• To conceal his identity, the officer used an anonymous email account and encrypted messaging chats to pass pilot personal data and aircraft armament details to Russian GRU handlers.
• Charged with high treason under martial law, he faces life imprisonment and confiscation of property as the counterintelligence investigation into related breaches continues.