2 hours ago A erstwhile high-ranking Ukrainian quality authoritative has been sentenced to beingness successful situation for spying for Russia's FSB information service.
Col Dmytro Kozyura was recovered blameworthy of precocious treason nether martial law, Ukraine's authoritative wide said. He was antecedently main of unit of the Security Service of Ukraine's (SBU) anti-terrorism centre.
An cognition codenamed "rat" recovered helium had utilized a safehouse successful Kyiv to pass with Russian handlers seeking classified accusation astir Ukraine's subject and leadership, the SBU said.
The authoritative wide said Kozyura had agreed to stock accusation "constituting authorities secrets" for fiscal reward and deserved the harshest punishment.
Kyiv has announced galore operations to exposure Russian agents connected its ungraded since Moscow launched its full-scale penetration successful February 2022.
After his apprehension successful February 2025, the SBU released an representation of the erstwhile authoritative with Ukraine's quality main Vasyl Malyuk, who led the investigation.
In a connection aft his sentencing, the bureau said helium had been recruited by Russia's FSB successful Vienna successful 2018, but respective years had passed earlier his handlers resumed interaction with him successful December 2024.
The SBU said helium was subsequently asked to stitchery and stock what Ukraine knew astir the deployment and question of Russia's equipped forces, and accusation astir Ukraine's weapons, infrastructure and its governmental and subject leadership.
His activities included spying connected SBU bid posts and "systematically" sharing the consequences of Russian strikes, including the fig of wounded soldiers and civilians, a connection from the bureau of Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko said.
He was successful "constant communication" with his handlers, including sharing documents marked "secret", helium added.
"The colonel, a vocation serviceman successful the SBU, had entree to authorities secrets and was liable for co-ordinating the combat against terrorism," the connection added.
"Anyone who wears Ukrainian epaulets and begins moving for the FSB becomes an force of Ukraine," Kravchenko said. "Only the harshest punishment is due for specified individuals."
Kozyura was arrested past twelvemonth aft SBU officials "monitored each measurement of the cause astir the clock" and recovered helium had communicated with a Russian operative from a safehouse utilizing a abstracted mobile telephone and Wi-Fi router, the SBU said.
It named his FSB handler successful Russia arsenic a antheral called Yuriy Shatalov whose relation was to co-ordinate a web of agents.
Ukraine's information work maintained that earlier Kozyura's eventual arrest, it had utilized him to "flood Russian forces with a monolithic magnitude of disinformation", portion astatine the aforesaid clip preventing him from getting clasp of important intelligence.
He was recovered blameworthy of precocious treason nether martial instrumentality and the amerciable handling of weapons, ammunitions oregon explosives by the Shevchenkivskyy District Court successful Kyiv.
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