Law enforcement officers detained a man who planned to hand over the positions of Ukrainian tanks near Kupyansk, Kharkiv region, to the Russians. Now he faces prison. This was reported by the Security Service of Ukraine.
The man in question is a 45-year-old resident of a Kharkiv suburb who moved to Poltava region at the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion, and from there he tried to contact Russian special services on his own initiative.
To do this, the man published his own posts on pro-Kremlin Telegram channels, praising Russian President Vladimir Putin and glorified Russian troops.
In one of these chats, he was offered covert cooperation and sent a list of intelligence tasks.
To collect information, the defendant used his acquaintances in Kharkiv region, asking for the necessary facts during friendly conversations.
In the zone of special attention of the figure were the routes of movement of battle tanks of the Ukrainian troops and their approximate number. At the same time, the offender was trying to identify logistics centers that provide maintenance and repair of heavy armored vehicles.
The Russians planned to use this information to prepare combat operations on the eastern front, particularly in the Kupyansk direction.
