FSB Agent Group Leader in Zaporizhzhia Sentenced to Life Imprisonment.

The resident who led the agent group of the Russian FSB in Zaporizhzhia region was sentenced to life imprisonment, and his accomplice received 15 years of imprisonment. This was reported by the press center of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

These individuals planned to carry out a series of terrorist attacks on the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and SBU special forces in the south of the country in the spring of 2023.

Russian agents studied the temporary base locations and movement routes of Ukrainian military in Zaporizhzhia region. They transmitted the collected information to the FSB via messenger in the form of marks on Google Maps with detailed descriptions and photos of military objects. It was planned to deliver precise strikes at these coordinates using missile weapons.

Additionally, the FSB prepared a plan for the physical elimination of Ukrainian servicemen by installing explosive devices in the areas where Defense Forces were concentrated.

The agents received money from Russian handlers, which was transferred to the bank details of the group's resident.

SBU counterintelligence officers preemptively exposed the agents, documented their crimes gradually, and detained them during a special operation in Zaporizhzhia in early May 2023

Let us recall, the SBU previously detained an RF agent in Kharkiv, who was remotely recruited by Russian military intelligence.

The SBU also detained an FSB agent who was spying on the columns of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Vinnytsia and Cherkasy regions.

Earlier in Zaporizhzhia, the SBU detained an agent of the Russian military intelligence, who turned out to be a demobilized conscript of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.