Counterintelligence officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) have detained an agent of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) in the Dnipropetrovsk region who was directing attacks on Nikopol using multiple-launch rocket systems, tube artillery, and FPV drones.
The SBU said this in a statement seen by Ukrinform.
The investigation found that the strikes were coordinated by a locally recruited repeat offender who had served a prison sentence for theft in the mid-1990s.
In the summer of 2025, he came to the attention of Russian intelligence services because of his own posts in Telegram channels supporting the Kremlin regime.
An FSB officer later contacted the man via messenger and offered him "quick money" in exchange for cooperation.
