Sex and espionage: Russian intelligence liaison recruited a spy from Kharkiv in a dating chat room

The SBU has detained a spy who was recruited by Russian security services in a dating chat room, the SBU has reported on 19 June. This was reported by the SBU on 19 June.

To obtain intelligence data, the Russian security services recruited an ideological supporter of the Kremlin who lives in the suburbs of Kharkiv.

It was established that the Russian intelligence attracted the man to co-operation through a popular dating chat room in the messenger Telegram.

In the chat room, a contact of the enemy intelligence service pretended to be a dating seeker and offered a resident of Kharkov a close relationship.

After he "fell for" the offer, the woman gradually attracted him to intelligence and subversive activities, - said the SBU.

Under her instructions, the recruited spy went round the northern territories of Kharkiv district, where he secretly recorded the places of the largest concentration of AFU personnel.

The SBU detained the spy red-handed when he was photographing military special transport of the Ukrainian army.

The spy's phone was confiscated, which he used to communicate with his Russian "girlfriend" and to record military facilities.

The SBU informed the detainee of suspicion under part 2 of Article 114-2 of the Criminal Code (unauthorised dissemination of information on the movement or deployment of the AFU or other military formations formed in accordance with the laws of Ukraine, committed under martial law).

The spy is in custody. He faces up to 8 years of imprisonment.

Earlier Socialportal reported that a Russian agent who mobilised in the AFU to spy on the eastern front received a real prison term of 15 years.