Counterintelligence officers of the SBU exposed the ex-employee of the support unit of the Verkhovna Rada, recruited by the Russian special services. The traitor was supposed to collect intelligence about the visits of foreign delegations to parliament, as well as to study the possibility of installing "

It is established that the detainee was recruited by the Russian FSB. This happened when an ex-BP employee visited the temporarily occupied Crimea even before the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The traitor had permission and access to various premises of the Ukrainian parliament, which he had to use to spy for the enemy. However, by the time the full-scale war began, he quit, and therefore did not complete any of the tasks..

After his dismissal, the enemy agent tried to get a job at a strategically important facility in the Zhytomyr region. For this, the traitor even passed a special check.. It was during it that the SBU exposed the fact of recruitment. The agent himself voluntarily reported on the tasks received from the curators. He also gave the necessary details.

“Currently, within the framework of criminal proceedings under Art.. 111 (high treason) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, urgent investigative and operational actions are underway to establish all the circumstances of the criminal offense,” the SBU added..

The sanction of the article under martial law provides for from 15 years to life imprisonment. However, the SBU recalled that a citizen of Ukraine is exempted from criminal liability if he has not taken any action to fulfill the criminal task and voluntarily informed the state authorities about the facts of involvement in confidential cooperation with the enemy.

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Earlier it was reported that counterintelligence officers detained an enemy agent who, at the beginning of a full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, accompanied 128 pieces of equipment of infidels during its movement from Sumy to Kyiv region. According to the SBU, the traitor is a resident of Sumy region recruited by Russians. From the beginning of the war, he cooperated with the enemy and offered the invaders to become a guide and show safe ways to Kyiv..