25 February 2025
(Photo: SBU)
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has detained a woman in Odesa whom it believes to be an agent of Russian military intelligence (better known as the Main Intelligence Directorate).
According to the SBU, the detainee was burning down Ukrzaliznytsia's power facilities and preparing caches with firearms and explosive components.
According to the case file, the suspect is a 32-year-old Odesa resident who was remotely recruited by a Russian special operations officer late last year. The SBU insists that, on his instructions, the traitor set fire to a relay cabinet of a signal installation and a transformer substation on a local railway line.
Then the agent received a new task - to equip a cache with components for an improved explosive device (IED) near the port. To do this, the woman traveled to Dnipro, where, using the coordinates of her Russian handler, she took an explosive disguised as a cigarette pack from the cache.
Upon returning to Odesa, the traitor tried to plant the component for the IED in a previously prepared cache near the port infrastructure. At this stage, SBU CI officers detained the agent red-handed and seized a part of the explosive device.
It was also established that the next component of the cache was firearms, which the suspect was to take from another frontline city. During the searches, the SBU seized the detainee's cell phone with evidence of communication with the Russian government.
SBU investigators have served her a notice of suspicion under Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (high treason committed under martial law). The issues of additional qualification of the offender's actions under Part 2 of Article 113 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (sabotage committed under martial law) are being settled.
The offender is in custody. She faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
Кирило Бойко