“We virtually needed to dwell along with him. That’s how we managed to doc him passing data to the Russians,” Malyuk mentioned in an announcement despatched to POLITICO. “Now he faces excessive treason fees.”
If discovered responsible by a courtroom, the person — who had been working as head of the SBU’s anti-terrorist middle headquarters since 2016 — faces life in jail.
The FSB recruited him in 2018, in line with the SBU. He was a so-called sleeping agent till December 2024, when Russia renewed contact with him whereas he already was beneath surveillance, the SBU mentioned in an announcement Wednesday.
The SBU mentioned his handlers had been former Ukrainian officers, concerned in cracking down on the pro-Western Euromaidan revolution of 2013-14, who fled to Moscow after the protests.
“We proceed to self-clean our ranks. And this course of will proceed,” mentioned Malyuk, who added that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was stored within the loop on the countersurveillance operation.
