Worked for exploration of the Russian Federation: the SBU detained in Odessa an expert consultant "Party Sharia" (photo)

After the start of a full -scale invasion, the suspect left Odessa to Crimea, where he went to the military enlistment office on his own initiative. According to the investigation, he was recruited by a staff member of the 3rd Operational Department of the 316th GRU Reconnaissance Center.

In Odessa, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detained the agent of the General Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU), who was a private lawyer who previously worked as an assistant consultant to some deputies from the Shariae Party faction in one of the district councils of Odessa region. This was reported in the SBU press service on Telegram.

"He (detained, edited) passed the targets for air strikes in the city, tracked the location and movement of Ukrainian air defense units, reported on the consequences of" arrival "rockets and blows with drones-Kamikadze," the message said. They noted that after the start of a full -scale invasion, the man with his wife went to the temporarily occupied Simferopol, where he addressed the "Military Commissariat of Crimea" at his own request.

As a result, he was recruited by a staff member of the 3rd Operational Department of the 316th Group Intelligence Center, Hryhoriy Ivanov, who worked under cover and introduced himself to the FSB employee. After that, according to security officers, the lawyer gave a subscription to unspoken cooperation with the Russian Federation. Instead, he was awarded the operational nickname "Diezel" and gave $ 500 "an advance" for carrying out intelligence and subversive activities against Ukraine.

Whereas after returning to Odessa, the man began to collect intelligence. He also tried to make contacts with local law enforcement officers to involve them in the agent network of Russian special services. "On the basis of the evidence collected, investigators of the Security Service informed him of the suspicion under Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (a state betrayal committed in martial law). He is currently in custody.

The attacker is threatened with life imprisonment," the SBU explained in the SBU, "the SBU explained in the SBU," . It was added that the Russian curator would be reported suspected of espionage. The SBU also identified the wife of a lawyer who is currently living in St. Petersburg and cooperates with the Russian GRU. We will remind, on August 2, Focus wrote about the detention of two correctives who gathered information about units of the Armed Forces and gave enemy blows to Kharkiv.