The Security Service of Ukraine has uncovered and detained an agent of FSB, russia's security service, who was operating in Kyiv. According to the press release issued on January 30th, the person charged with spying for russia was gathering information about potential targets for long-range strikes on the Ukrainian capital city.
One of his assignments was to provide coordinates of key facilities of heat and power supply infrastructure, a notable detail considering russia had seemingly given up on attempts to gain an advantage in the ongoing war by cutting off electricity and heat for households.
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For a reminder, in October 2022, russian forces started a shelling campaign aimed at Ukraine's electricity supply lines, creating a substantial deficit in the power grid and leaving whole cities blacked out. Missile attacks continued until spring 2023 and an apparent change of strategy which Ukrainian intelligence associates with russia's failure to achieve its strategic goal.
The adoption of a new plan can also explain the technical adaptations applied to the long-range weapons the russian forces use for shelling.
Though it seems that the critical infrastructure does still interest the russian FSB, since their agent was sending them information about electrical substations, overhead power lines, and heating plants.
"The invaders needed this intelligence to prepare a new series of strikes aimed at the military and critical infrastructure of Ukraine," the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) noted in the news bulletin.
Additionally, the russian-recruited agent was trying to find out the locations of reserve command centers of the 3rd Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and even get a job at a Ukrainian weapon-making enterprise in order to "collect secret information about the types and quantity of armament that is produced on the premises of the defense-industrial facility."
As a result of "comprehensive measures" carried out by the SSU, the agent was detained and charged with treason, facing a potential life imprisonment.
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