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SSU discloses new details on FSB mole in NABU

Security Service of Ukraine

10:00, 8 September 2025

The Security Service of Ukraine has established that the NABU Central Office employee detained in July, who worked in the closed D-2 unit, was part of a large-scale enemy agent network. In addition to the NABU employee, the agent network included three other individuals, who had been exposed earlier.

All agents were well-versed in secrecy measures and had access to state secrets and restricted documents.

As established by the investigation, the network was supervised by Igor Yegorov, an employee of the 1st service of the counterintelligence operations department of russia's federal security service.

He began forming the agent network in 2009, when he repeatedly visited Ukraine as part of interagency cooperation between the special services of the two countries.

The first of Yegorov's associates to be detained by the SSU in 2020 was major general Valery Shaitanov of the Security Service. At that time, on Yegorov's instructions, Shaitanov planned a series of terrorist attacks on Ukrainian territory, as well as the murder of a well-known military volunteer, and collected and transmitted to russia information on secret operations in the Anti-Terrorist Operation zone.

After Shaitanov's arrest and a thorough investigation, the SSU identified another of Yegorov's agents, Dmitry Ivantsov. He is a former deputy head of Yanukovych's security detail. In February 2014, Ivantsov helped the fugitive president flee to russia, while he himself remained in Crimea and joined the ranks of the occupiers. Ivantsov is currently hiding on the temporarily occupied peninsula and is a resident of the FSB. One of his tasks is the coordination of sabotage activities of other enemy agents in Ukraine.

Despite the large arsenal of secrecy measures used by the Yegorov-Ivantsov agent network, in 2024 the Security Service identified another member of their cell. He turned out to be a serviceman of the National Guard. For several years, this person had been passing on to Ivantsov data on Ukrainian activists, high-ranking officials, prisoners of war, information on the consequences of strikes on Ukraine, etc.

Subsequently, the SSU established that another agent of Yegorov-Ivantsov was a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who at the time of his arrest was an active employee of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. According to the investigation, this NABU official was recruited by the enemy back in 2012.

He continued to provide intelligence to Ivantsov even after 2014, when Yanukovych's associate openly sided with the enemy. This is confirmed, in particular, by secret communication, which the perpetrators resumed literally three days after the fake referendum on the 'annexation' of Crimea to russia.

Based on the investigation, the current NABU employee is accused of transferring restricted information to Yanukovych's former deputy security chief on more than 60 occasions.

Among other things, the mole collected personal data on Ukrainian law enforcement officers and other citizens for the FSB. Against them, the enemy was planning recruitment activities and special information operations.

To obtain personal information on the potential targets, the traitor used closed databases of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies.

After thoroughly documenting the mole's crimes, the SSU and the OPG detained him. His phone and computer equipment, which he used to contact his handler, have been seized.

The detainee has been notified of suspicion under the Articles of the CCU:

• 111.1 (high treason);
• 362.3 (unauthorized actions with information processed in electronic computers, automated systems, computer networks, or stored on such information carriers, committed by a person who has access to it).

The court has chosen custody as a measure of restraint for the suspect, who now faces imprisonment for up to 15 years.

Another agent of the Yegorov-Ivantsov network, major general Valery Shaitanov, has already been sentenced to 12 years in prison. The National Guard official is currently in custody.

The pre-trial investigation under the procedural supervision of the Office of the Prosecutor General is ongoing.

We would like to emphasize that this criminal proceeding concerns an individual employee of the NABU and has no bearing on the Bureau's effective work as a Ukrainian state institution. As before, the Security Service advocates constructive cooperation to strengthen institutional capacities, eliminate pro-russian influence, and enhance our state's independence.