The Security Service of Ukraine, together with the National Police, detained five agents of the Russian special services who were coordinating missile strikes on Ukrainian cities using... video recorders. The agent group operated in the East, South and West of the country - from Zaporizhia to Khmelnytskyi. The youngest spy was only 16 years old, and the oldest was 23.
According to the SBU, all the suspects knew each other, but acted independently. They all had one supervisor from the Russian special services, who coordinated them through Telegram channels. It was through these resources that the occupiers recruited young Ukrainians who were looking for part-time work on the Internet.
The group's composition seemed almost like a random group: a student from Zaporizhzhia, his acquaintance with a guy, and two brothers from the Kharkiv region. But their activities were far from random.
On the instructions of the Russian curators, they were to establish coordinates for precise strikes on the defense facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Sumy, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhia, as well as Kyiv, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi and Dnipropetrovsk regions. The agents traveled through the regions, parked cars with video recorders turned on near military facilities and cafes. It was from the cafes that they conducted surveillance, checked the equipment, changed memory cards, and monitored the recording.
The SBU counterintelligence department exposed the activities of the spies in advance, documented all stages of the criminal activity, and only after ensuring the security of military locations, detained the members of the spy group at their places of residence.
All defendants have been charged under Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — high treason under martial law. They face life imprisonment with confiscation of property. The court has already chosen preventive measures — detention without bail.
This case is another reminder of how danger can lurk in the most banal things — even in a windshield dashcam.
