SSU detains pair of GRU agents who adjusted enemy strikes on Odesa
Security Service of Ukraine
10:00, 30 June 2025
In Odesa, the SSU cyber units have apprehended another two agents of russia's military intelligence ('the GRU'). The perpetrators worked in pair and adjusted the aggressor's attacks on the Defense Forces in southern Ukraine.
According to the investigation, the agent who collected intelligence is a 61-year-old rehabilitation doctor. To provide more information to the ruscists, she enlisted the help of her acquaintance, a 36-year-old former employee of Ukrainian Railways.
The SSU intercepted a telephone conversation in which the man received instructions from his handler, a GRU serviceman.
During the briefing, the officer of the enemy special service identified priority targets for the strikes. These included air defense positions and backup command posts of Ukrainian troops defending Odesa and the Black Sea water area.
The occupiers also tried to target Ukrainian Armed Forces freight trains.
To do this, the enemy agents had to obtain the schedules of military trains and geolocations of their stops at transit stations.
As for the rehab doctor, while working with military patients she covertly questioned them about the locations of the Defense Forces.
Following their handler's instructions, both agents also walked around the city and its outskirts, recording potential targets on their mobile phones.
SSU cyber specialists documented every move of the traitors and detained them at their homes. Simultaneously, action was taken to protect the locations of Ukrainian troops.
SSU investigators notified the detained individuals of suspicion under Article 111.2 of the CCU (high treason, committed under martial law).
The suspects are in custody without bail and face life imprisonment with confiscation of property.
The operation was carried out by the SSU Odesa Office under the procedural supervision of the regional Prosecutor's Office.
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