The Security Service of Ukraine has detained a 56-year-old employee of a state bank from Odessa who was providing personal data of clients, including servicemen of the Defense Forces, to the Russian special services. As investigators have established, the woman was operating under the control of the FSB, which recruited her remotely after her activity in anti-Ukrainian Telegram channels.
While working behind the counter at a state bank branch, the suspect selectively collected information about customers in military uniform or with signs of wounds received at the front. She recorded their personal data, paid attention to banking transactions, and transmitted the information to the FSB curator via secure Internet channels.
A freelance “scout” also toured the city and photographed areas where Ukrainian military units could be located. The enemy planned to use the information gathered to prepare terrorist attacks, information sabotage, and attempts to recruit Ukrainian defenders.
The SBU found out that the Odessa woman had come to the attention of Russian intelligence services because of her anti-Ukrainian comments on Telegram. FSB representatives contacted her under the guise of “like-minded people” and later offered her “assistance in the fight against the regime.”
After several months of communication, she agreed to collect information, not realizing that her actions were being documented by Ukrainian counterintelligence.
The special service documented all stages of the information transfer, conducted a search of the woman's place of work and residence, seizing equipment with evidence of communication with Russian curators.
After that, the agent was isolated, and she is currently in custody. SBU investigators informed her of suspicion of high treason under martial law (Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
She faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
