Two members of an intelligence network who helped the enemy launch attacks on the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk region have been convicted

A public indictment by prosecutors of the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor's Office convicted two citizens for collaboration activities as part of an organized group.

They were sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison with deprivation of the right to hold positions related to the performance of organizational and managerial and administrative and economic functions in government bodies, institutions, enterprises and organizations for a period of 13 years and confiscation property.

Prosecutors proved that in July 2022, employees of the FSB of the Russian Federation offered so-called confidential cooperation to a citizen of Ukraine who had been in the territory of the aggressor state for four months.

Supporting the Kremlin regime, the man agreed to establish an agent network in Ukraine in order to collect intelligence data on the whereabouts of our defenders. To implement the enemy's criminal plan, he involved an acquaintance from Kharkiv, a man who has been living in Moscow since 2014. The latter, in turn, took as assistants no less «ideological» a colleague from Druzhkivka, who is already serving a sentence of 12 years in prison.

Following his instructions, the recruited «intelligence» sought out the locations of personnel, checkpoints, fortified areas and firing positions of Ukrainian servicemen. At the same time, he added fragments of maps, coordinates of buildings, trenches, trenches and other fortifications to messages in the messenger.

The agents paid special attention to the places of concentration of equipment of the units of the Defense Forces in the Kramatorsk district. They also gave «tasks» to report to the man about the consequences of shelling to correct the fire by the Russian troops.  

One of the convicted «curators» analyzed the information received from him and passed the most important information to the head of the network, who sent them to the FSB of the Russian Federation. In this way, they carried out subversive activities against Ukraine.