Ukraine's Security Service detained a Russian agent who was a department director of a Kyiv insurance company. The agent gathered intelligence on energy infrastructure by meeting with heads of Kyiv energy companies under the pretense of insurance contracts, and transmitted this information to a Russian GRU officer to prepare air strikes on Kyiv's energy infrastructure for the heating season.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has detained a Russian agent who helped to prepare Russian attacks on thermal power plants in Kyiv by concluding insurance contracts with the heads of Kyiv energy enterprises.

The malefactor is the department director of one of the capital's insurance companies.

He used this as an excuse to learn from his clients as much information as possible about the facts and consequences of Russian attacks on power plants.

The enemy agent transmitted through a mobile messenger all the received intelligence to his Moscow curator, a staff member of the Russian GRU.

Intelligence information was needed to prepare and adjust repeated air strikes on energy companies of the capital for the heating season.

Officers of the Ukraine's Security Service detained the Russian agent at his place of residence in one of the villages of Kyiv Oblast.

The malefactor faces life imprisonment for treason.

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