Hunted with drone technologies: the SBU detained the Russian spy from Transnistria

To spread: The game agent was detained near Odessa. His task was to recruit a military Armed Forces, which works with drones. The Security Service detained the agent of Russian military intelligence, or a game near Odessa. He was a resident of the unrecognized Transnistria, who tried to obtain secret Ukrainian developments in the field of unmanned systems. The SBU is told that they documented each step and detained the spy "on hot".

It is reported that to accomplish the task of Russian curators, the person involved arrived in Odessa and had to recruit a serviceman of the defense forces who works with drones. After contact with the Ukrainian warrior, the agent hoped to obtain technical documentation through him for the latest shock and reconnaissance Ukrainian UAVs.

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The security service exposed the agent immediately when he arrived in Ukraine under the guise of an entrepreneur who allegedly import Ukrainian food products. In the future, the SBU documented every step of the attacker, which allowed him to hold him "on hot" when he tried to receive a flash drive with secret information in the UAV.

In the future, he had to remove data to the unrecognized Transnistria and to establish his own production of combat drones for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Instead, the spy was detained. When searching, he also found two pistols, which are currently sent for examination. Based on the evidence collected, investigators of the SBU have informed the person involved in suspicion under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine: now the attacker is in custody.

He faces up to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property. Recall that in January in Latvia up to eight years, a 72-year-old spy with a Russian passport was condemned by lattice. The former Soviet officer, after his release from the Armed Forces of the USSR, remained in Latvia, gathered information about political processes in Latvia, critical infrastructure and military facilities. He also followed the territory around the 17th Battalion of the National Guard of Latvia.