"Hunted" for Patriot SSK: SBU detained Russian agents in Kiev and Cherkasy (photo)

"The SBU detained two enemy associates who" hunted "on Patriot and photographed the consequences of" arrivals "in Kiev and Cherkasy," the statement said. Counterintelligence said that one suspect was detained on the eve of departure to Russia. According to the investigation, the citizens were interested in the indicative coordinates of the base of Ukrainian air defense systems, including Patriots.

In addition, the suspects photographed the effects of Russian "arrivals", took pictures from different angles and attachment to the area. The SBU found that after a rocket attack on Cherkasy on September 21, a woman photographed a damaged building in the city center and sent pictures to her accomplice - a Russian citizen living in Kiev. After that, the accomplice tried to go to the Russian Federation, in particular he planned to leave Ukraine through the EU territory as a person of uncertain age.

However, the SBU was detained after he purchased tickets. The investigation found that the detainee was the Doctor of Philosophy, a former teacher of one of the Chernihiv higher education institutions, who in 2015 received a Russian passport in a temporarily occupied Crimea. He later returned to Kiev, and after the start of a full -scale invasion began to track the base of the Armed Forces in the capital.

The SBU conducted searches and found forbidden symbols of the Russian Federation, souvenir products with photos of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Passport of the Russian Federation, mobile phones. Investigators qualified the unlawful actions of the detainees under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, they are threatened with up to eight years in prison.

We will remind, on November 8 it became known about the detention of a resident of Donetsk region, which went on cooperation with the Russian invaders and passed the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine under Bakhmut. She faces up to eight years in prison. On November 6, the SBU announced the exposition of a resident of Vinnytsia region, who was engaged in the preparation of a series of air attacks of the Russian Federation on objects of transport and energy infrastructure.