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Since full-scale invasion, SSU uncovered 52 Defense Forces servicemen who were russian agents

Security Service of Ukraine

10:00, 15 August 2025

The Security Service, with the assistance of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, is systematically exposing enemy agents and dismantling criminal schemes in the Security and Defense forces of our state.

Since the start of the full-scale war, only the Military Counterintelligence Department of the SSU has detained 207 agents of the russian special services who were gathering information on the Defense Forces and military installations of Ukraine. 52 of them were active military personnel. 44 traitors have already been sentenced to terms ranging from 12 to 15 years.

For example, a former commander of a Special Operations Forces unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who leaked combat plans of Ukrainian special forces in enemy territory to the occupiers, was convicted to 15 years in prison.

The Security Service detained him in the autumn of 2024. The traitor was found in possession of secret communication devices with evidence of his contacts with his handler, a serving officer of russian military intelligence ('the GRU').

In total, in 2025 alone, the SSU Military Counterintelligence dismantled three enemy agent networks.

In August this year, such network of russian special services was uncovered in Zaporizhzhia. It included a mobilized soldier and the rector of a local church of Ukrainian Orthodox Church of moscow patriarchate.

The perpetrators guided enemy aerial bombs to the locations of the Defense Forces and recruited new candidates to the cell.

In Odesa region, four FSB agents were detained along with the head of their group. They adjusted russian air strikes on depots containing weapons, ammunition and supplies for Ukrainian troops.

The traitors also scouted the geolocations of Ukrainian air defense units to adjust enemy strikes to evade our air defenses.

In Lviv oblast, a 38-year-old female informant was detained. She was preparing coordinates for russian missile and drone attacks on airfields with Ukrainian combat helicopters.

In addition, the SSU Military Counterintelligence prevented the theft of over 44 billion Hryvnias in the defense sector.

Since the start of the full-scale war, the SSU Military Counterintelligence has blocked 114 schemes of mobilization, evasion, stopped 222 cases of illegal circulation of weapons and prevented their removal from the combat zone.

The SSU continues to work to protect Ukraine's national security and is making comprehensive efforts to bring to justice all those responsible for these crimes.

In addition to fighting the aggressor and its accomplices within our state, the SSU Military Counterintelligence conducts special operations behind enemy lines and participates in combat operations directly on the front line.

Since the start of the full-scale war, the SSU Military Counterintelligence has destroyed 219 enemy tanks, 358 armoured combat vehicles, 318 artillery systems and 73 electronic warfare systems on the battlefield.