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Security Service of Ukraine

SSU detains enemy informants who adjusted russian strikes on Donetsk region

Security Service of Ukraine

09:30, 16 June 2025

The Security Service has apprehended another two informants of russian special services in Donetsk region. Both are local residents who prepared coordinates for the aggressor's missile and bomb strikes.

In Sloviansk, the enemy accomplice turned out to be a 44-year-old saleswoman from a local store. She came to the occupiers' attention because of her pro-russian comments on Telegram channels.

To gather intelligence, the woman scouted the area and tried to elicit information from the visitors to her store.

Another informant is a 45-year-old employee of a municipal enterprise in the village of Krasnotorka, Kramatorsk district.

The investigation established that the woman was remotely cooperating with a 'liaison' of the enemy special services. He turned out to be an old acquaintance of her from the temporarily occupied part of Donetsk region, who planned to pass the intelligence to russia's GRU.

Following the enemy orders, she tracked the locations of checkpoints and routes of Ukrainian armored vehicles towards the front line.

The SSU apprehended both women at their homes. Phones with evidence of working for the enemy were seized during searches.

SSU investigators notified the detained of suspicion under Article 114-2.2 of the CCU (unauthorized dissemination of information about the movement of the AFU or other lawful military formations, committed under martial law).

The suspects are in custody without bail and face up to 8 years in prison.

The operations were carried out by the SSU Office in Donetsk and Luhansk regions under the procedural supervision of Donetsk Region Prosecutor's Office.



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