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On August 3rd, 2022 the counter-intelligence unit of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) released this footage. It shows the detainment of a Ukrainian citizen in the area of Dnipro, on charges of espionage.

According to the SBU, the detainee was operating as an agent of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), covertly collecting intelligence on airfields, railway facilities, locations and movements of Ukrainian forces in the Dnipro region. He was a Ukrainian citizen, working for a private security company and living in the region of Dnipro.

SBU stated that he had pro-Russian ideology and tried to impose that to his compatriots. After Russia's FSB discovered this, they contacted him directly via messenger to his mobile phone to recruit him. He accepted the offer to cooperate with the FSB and was tasked with tactical intelligence collection in the region.

He was transmitting the collected data via instant messaging applications to his FSB handler. Messages included coordinates, notes, photos and videos describing in detail the surrounding areas and security controls that were in place.

Subsequently, the FSB analysed this intelligence and shared it with the Russian military in order to plan sabotage operations and adjust artillery and missiles strikes to those sites/targets.

His detainment was supported by members of SBU's Alpha Group, the agency's paramilitary unit responsible for special operations. Currently it is not known how the SBU discovered the espionage activities of the detainee.

00:00 - Overview
00:12 - Detainment footage
00:47 - Search footage

References
- SBU: SBU Detained A Russian Agent Who Collected Data to Adjust Missile Strikes on Airfields in the Dnipro Region: [ Ссылка ]
- Wikipedia: Alpha Group (Ukraine): [ Ссылка ]
- Wikipedia: Security Service of Ukraine: [ Ссылка ]
- Wikipedia: Federal Security Service: [ Ссылка ]

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