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SSU detains FSB agent who adjusted russian attacks on Kharkiv energy infrastructure

Security Service of Ukraine

10:30, 31 July 2025

The SSU has exposed another russian attempt to destroy Kharkiv's energy infrastructure of and disrupt the city's preparations for the heating season.

As a result of a special operation, in Kharkiv, the SSU has detained an FSB agent, who was collecting coordinates of military, electricity and heat generating facilities on the order of the enemy.

According to findings, the ruscists planned to use the intelligence to prepare a new series of missile and drone strikes.

The investigation has established that a 34-year-old former employee of the Kharkiv Heat and Power Company, who had been fired due to drug addiction, fulfilled the occupiers' instructions.

The FSB remotely recruited him through Telegram channels and offered him money in exchange for cooperation.

The agent's main task was to collect coordinates. In addition, he tried to locate mobile air defense fire groups protecting Kharkiv's high-voltage transformer substations, as well as modular boiler systems and cogeneration units that provide heat and electricity to residents replacing thermal power stations attacked by the enemy.

In addition, the adjuster tried to identify the locations of the Territorial Recruitment Centers. To do this, during everyday conversations he elicited the addresses of military registration and enlistment offices from acquaintances who visited protected facilities, and then made photos of these buildings.

According to the investigation, the agent coordinated his subversive activities with an FSB officer, who has already been identified by the SSU.

SSU officers have documented the enemy's actions and taken measures to secure the locations of the Defense Forces and energy facilities. At the final stage of the special operation, the suspect was detained.

During the search, his phone with evidence of working for the enemy was seized.

SSU investigators have notified the agent of suspicion under Article 111.2 of the CCU (high treason committed under martial law).

The detainee is in custody without the right to be released on bail and faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property.

The operation was carried out by the SSU Office in Kharkiv region under the procedural supervision of the regional Prosecutor's Office.