KYIV. Oct 28 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office has sent an indictment to Solomiansky District Court of Kyiv against a citizen of Ukraine recruited by the special services of the Russian Federation, the press service of Kyiv city prosecutor’s office reports.
"A man, being on the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea, after the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, was recruited by the special services of the aggressor state. From the Russian curators, the man received the task, using his connections, to organize the collection and transmission of information about the movement of Ukrainian troops on the territory of Kyiv and Kyiv region, the location of checkpoints, as well as the addresses of critical, civilian and military infrastructure facilities in the capital.
The man passed these tasks to his woman-friend – a 60-year-old resident of Kyiv, who took pictures of these objects on her mobile phone. The woman transmitted the collected information, as well as the coordinates of the location of objects, to an accomplice through mobile communication applications," the message says.
During the pretrial investigation, it was established that from March to June, the woman had been collecting and transmitting information about 21 of the above-mentioned objects to the accomplice. Currently, the lawbreaker is in custody. The indictment against her was sent to court in September 2022. Her accomplice will be tried in absentia for committing high treason under martial law by prior agreement of a group of persons (Part 2 of Article 28, Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).