The Russian Federal Security Service detained a design engineer of a local defense enterprise in Rostov-on-Don on charges of treason in the form of espionage. This is reported by TASS with reference to the Center for Public Relations (CSP) of the FSB.

Predictably, a Ukrainian trace was found in the case.

According to the intelligence service, from February to April 2023, the detainee corresponded in messengers with an employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and carried out his tasks.. What exactly, the secret service does not specify..

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A case was opened against the detainee under Art.. 275 of the Criminal Code (high treason) in the form of espionage. After tightening the article in April this year, he faces a sentence of up to life imprisonment.. The FSB does not specify the name of the man.

Earlier in May, a Crimean resident was detained in a case of treason, who, according to the FSB, transmitted data to the Ukrainian military about the movement of Russian military equipment en route to the battle zone.. A video of trains moving by a 34-year-old man allegedly sent to the chatbot of one of the Ukrainian Telegram channels, with the help of which the Ukrainian special services collect intelligence. The FSB said that the information was used to carry out missile strikes.

Recall that after the start of the war in Ukraine, Russia was swept by a wave of cases of high treason.. So, for example, in the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 16 people have already been subjected to criminal prosecution..

And last week it became known that paranoia had reached the largest scientific center of the Russian defense industry - the Novosibirsk Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, specializing in the creation of hypersonic missiles.. Already three scientists of the Institute have been arrested by the security forces under the article, the maximum punishment for which this year became life imprisonment - high treason.

We also recall that on the night of May 16, Kyiv experienced an exceptionally dense missile attack - the enemy launched the maximum number of missiles in the shortest period of time. However, all these missiles were shot down by the Ukrainian air defense forces, including 6 Kinzhal missiles, about which Russia spread the legend about their invulnerability.

All subsequent attacks on Kyiv ended with the same devastating dry score in favor of Ukrainian air defense.