Overview

• The SSU detained a 36-year-old freelancer in Kyiv whom investigators say was remotely recruited via an acquaintance from occupied Crimea to scout Defense Forces sites.
• The Kyiv suspect was apprehended near the Main Directorate of the National Guard while collecting details on checkpoints and parking areas, and investigators seized the smartphone used to contact an alleged FSB handler.
• SSU Military Counterintelligence in Chernihiv detained a 39-year-old local who allegedly tried to destroy her phone during arrest after installing a remote-access camera from a rented apartment facing a Territorial Recruitment Center.
• According to the SSU, the Chernihiv asset was initially sent to look for airfields in Kyiv region from a handler’s list, then returned to adjust strikes on recruitment offices when she failed to find military targets.
• Separately, a 40-year-old chemical plant worker was arrested for marking coordinates of airfields, air defense sites, and UAV production facilities across five regions on Google Maps under alleged FSB guidance, with investigators seizing a phone containing geolocations and reporting materials.