from HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 17:54
https://sh.itjust.works/post/53965337
Ukraine claims to have detained two Russian spies who were involved in scoping out the damage caused by Moscow’s Oreshnik ballistic missile in Lviv.
Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, said in a statement the suspects were a 64-year-old from the southwestern Transcarpathia region of Ukraine and his 22-year-old unemployed neighbor. The arrest was announced in the morning of Thursday, local time.
According to the SBU, the agents were working for Russia’s military intelligence, the GRU, and were tasked with collecting data on the damage done by the nuclear-capable Oreshnik cruise missile.
The junior partner in the spy duo traveled from Transcarpathia to Lviv, where the rocket had struck in the night to Jan. 9, and then “gradually passed by the locations in the area of the rocket attack, took photos of them, and recorded the coordinates on Google Maps,” according to the SBU. The older man, who had remained in his home in the southwestern Ukranian city of Mukachevo, took possession of the information collected and passed it on to Russian handlers.
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