SSU detains another six pro-russian Internet agitators
Security Service of Ukraine
13:00, 20 June 2025
The Security Service of Ukraine has apprehended another six pro-russian internet agitators who operated in several regions of Ukraine. The perpetrators justified russia's armed aggression and ruscists' war crimes.
In Kyiv, a former propagandist for one of Ukraine's pro-kremlin newspapers was detained. After the newspaper was shut down, he began writing a sports column for one of Ukraine's well-known online publications.
While working at the newspaper, he also published posts on Telegram channels calling for bombing of Ukrainian cities and capture of Kyiv.
Another online provocateur was also exposed in the capital. He turned out to be a 26-year-old fitness trainer who on his Instagram page called on men to evade mobilization and spread fake news about the Defense Forces.
In Fastiv district, Kyiv region, a citizen of one of the Central Asian countries was detained for calling on Ukrainians to lay down their arms before the russian invaders.
To disseminate enemy content, the foreigner created accounts on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook with an audience of 60,000 subscribers.
The SSU's cyber units also detained a Kyiv resident who praised putin on russian social media and glorified russian occupation troops.
In Kropyvnytskyi, a 41-year-old displaced person from Donetsk region was detained for supporting the seizure of eastern Ukraine on Odnoklassniki social network.
In Ivano-Frankivsk oblast, a 30-year-old resident of the village of Perehrestne was exposed for calling russia's armed aggression a 'civil war' on his Facebook page.
Forensic linguistic examinations initiated by the SSU confirmed the facts of information and subversive activities by the agitators in the kremlin's favour.
SSU investigators notified the individuals involved of suspicion of crimes, according to the actions each of them committed, under the Articles of the CCU:
- 114-1.1 (obstruction of the lawful activities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, during a special period);
- 436-2, parts 2 and 3 (justification, recognition of russia's armed aggression against Ukraine as legitimate, glorification of its participants);
- 109.2 (public calls for forceful change of constitutional order, as well as dissemination of materials for the commission of such acts).
The suspects are in custody and face up to 8 years in prison with confiscation of property.
The operations were carried out under the procedural supervision of regional prosecutor's offices and the Prosecutor General's Office.
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