Overview
- Ukrainian prosecutors say an unnamed British citizen who arrived in 2024 as a military instructor was detained in Kyiv and remanded without bail on charges of unlawfully sharing defense information under martial law, carrying a potential 12‑year sentence.
- Investigators allege he passed unit coordinates, training‑site photos, and identifying data in May 2025 and received about $6,000 for one task, with the SBU claiming he was preparing attacks after receiving IED instructions and retrieving a pistol from a cache.
- The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said it is aware of the detention of a British national in Ukraine and is in contact with Ukrainian authorities.
- In Druzhkivka, a 54‑year‑old local woman posing as a cleaner allegedly photographed soldiers’ documents and belongings and sent data via a chatbot; she is charged with high treason under martial law and held without bail, facing a possible life term.
- Separately, a Mykolaiv resident who installed a hidden camera to track air‑defense activity and sent data to an FSB handler identified as Sergey Lebedev was convicted of high treason and sentenced to 15 years, with digital devices seized as evidence.