Kharkiv: Collaborator who handed over Ukrainian Armed Forces positions to the Russian occupiers has been detained
DENYS KARLOVSKYI — FRIDAY, 22 APRIL 2022, 19:49
The Security Service of Ukraine has detained a 29-year-old Ukrainian citizen in Kharkiv who had been handing over information on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the command of the Russian occupation forces.
Source: Security Service of Ukraine department in Kharkiv region
Quote: "Detectives established that the 29-year-old Ukrainian woman had arrived in the Kharkiv region from the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine.
According to her assignment from the curator, the woman was establishing the coordinates of the location of the city's military and critical infrastructure, as well as the location of forces and units of the Armed Forces and the National Guard of Ukraine."
Details: According to the investigation, the informant had helped the Russian army to fire on educational, medical and commercial institutions in Kharkiv, as well as residential areas of the city.
The information provided by this collaborator had led to civilians being killed and injured as a result of the shelling.
During a search of the detainee's actual residence, officers from the Security Service of Ukraine found means of communication with the Russian special services and a significant sum in Russian roubles.
The collaborator was informed that she was suspected under Part 3 of Article 114-2 "Espionage". She faces 8 to 12 years’ imprisonment.
