Counterintelligence officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) have detained a Russian agent in Lviv who was helping coordinate Russian strikes on Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) facilities, government buildings and military institutions.
According to Ukrinform, the SSU reported this.
The investigation established that the Russian intelligence services’ assignments were carried out by an unemployed man from the Dnipropetrovsk region whom they had recruited.
The suspect was found to have worked for two handlers from Russia simultaneously. On the instructions of one of them, the agent was supposed to collect intelligence to prepare strikes on railway infrastructure and administrative buildings of government and military institutions in the Lviv and Kharkiv regions.
To carry out his assignments in western Ukraine, he traveled to Lviv, photographed the exterior perimeters of potential targets with his phone, marked their locations on Google Maps and sent reports to his Russian intelligence handler.
