Nearly two dozen Russian diplomats exposed as spies in Ukraine over past seven years
Since 2014, the Security Service (SBU) counterintelligence units have neutralized more than 30 hostile intelligence networks in various regions of the country. Courts have found more than 180 perpetrators guilty of treason and espionage.
That’s according to the SBU press service, Ukrinform reports.
In addition, the SBU has exposed over 20 Russian intelligence officers, who had been operating in Ukraine under diplomatic cover. All of them were declared personae non grata.
Throughout this period, Ukrainian counterintelligence operatives neutralized more than 300 enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups, while 26 culprits were nabbed while plotting explosions at critical infrastructure facilities, including defense objects.
More than 250 militants have been sentenced to various terms for crimes against Ukraine's national security. Among them are leaders and members of illegal armed groupings and "LPR/DPR" terrorist groups.
In a massive special operation, the SBU exposed a Russian FSB intelligence network. The assets operated across Kyiv, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Zhytomyr, and Chernihiv regions.
The network was preparing the acts of sabotage in relation to a number of fighter jets based at one of the Air Force airfields.
Almost 3 kg of TNT with electric detonators, as well as anti-tank rocket-propelled grenades, were seized in the raid.
In the Joint Forces Operation zone, SBU counterintelligence operatives detained a saboteur, hired by the Russian special services, upon an attempt to plant a bomb onto an ammonia tank at the premises of an industrial facility in Luhansk region.
Two RPG-22 anti-tank rocket-propelled grenades were seized, which the attacker had previously retrieved from an arms cache in the area.
In Kharkiv, SBU officers exposed a Russian military intelligence asset. On the instructions of his handlers, he had been gathering confidential information about the latest Ukrainian-made armored vehicles.
The culprit had been trying to obtain design documentation for the T-84BM Oplot main battle tank.
Another Russian spy was detained in Luhansk region where he had arrived to gather intelligence on the units involved in the Joint Forces Operations.
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