The SBU neutralized the FSB agent network, which included two of Yanukovych’s ex-security guards and a National Guard serviceman.
These men, as the department said, collected confidential information about Ukrainian special services and law enforcement agencies, as well as domestic officials and public figures.
The Russians planned to use this information to liquidate, recruit, and conduct information and psychological special operations against Ukrainian officials.
The cell’s chief agent is 48-year-old Dmitry Ivantsov, a former head of the UGO unit who accompanied Yanukovych during his “evacuation” to Russia. The Russian FSB recruited him before 2012.
The group also included a 46-year-old Kyiv resident, an active serviceman of the National Guard. When he was Ivantsov’s driver, when he served in the UGO of Ukraine. The National Guard used his law enforcement acquaintances to obtain information from departmental information systems, and was also supposed to look for “like-minded people” for recruitment.
The SBU has detained a suspect operating in Kyiv (he is in custody). He faces up to 15 years in prison.
The investigation continues to bring to justice all those involved in the crime.
Source: Racurs
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