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SSU detains GRU agents preparing new russian attacks on Kyiv and Odesa

Security Service of Ukraine

10:00, 1 September 2025

The Security Service has detained another two agents of russian military intelligence ('the GRU') who adjusted enemy air attacks on Ukraine. They were preparing a new series of russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and Odesa.

According to the investigation, the agents were supposed to identify locations of the Defence Forces and transmit the data to the occupiers. They were also assessing the consequences of enemy strikes on civilian infrastructure in order to adjust repeated strikes on Ukrainian cities.

The two agents acted separately but had one common handler, whose identity has been established by the SSU.

To gather intelligence, they walked around the target areas, photographed potential targets, and recorded their coordinates.

One of them, a 31-year-old native of the temporarily occupied Melitopol, was detained in Kyiv. The GRU had sent him to spy in the Ukrainian capital.

The asset was to identify and transmit to the occupiers the locations of repair bases for military equipment of the Defence Forces.

He also tracked the time intervals of largest concentrations of people near the recruitment centers in Kyiv region, which the enemy planned to strike from the air.

In Odesa, a former military servicewoman was exposed. After leaving the service, she began cooperating with the GRU.

For the enemy money, the traitor passed to the ruscists the coordinates of the bases of maritime and border guards and National Guard units in the port city.

However, the agent never received the promised money from russia.

SSU investigators notified the detainees 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 Office in Kyiv and Kyiv region under the procedural supervision of Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office.