“We practically had to live together with him. That’s how we managed to document him passing information to the Russians,” Malyuk said in a statement sent to POLITICO. “Now he faces high treason charges.”
If found guilty by a court, the man — who had been working as head of the SBU’s anti-terrorist center headquarters since 2016 — faces life in prison.
The FSB recruited him in 2018, according to the SBU. He was a so-called sleeping agent until December 2024, when Russia renewed contact with him while he already was under surveillance, the SBU said in a statement Wednesday.
The SBU said his handlers were former Ukrainian officials, involved in cracking down on the pro-Western Euromaidan revolution of 2013-14, who fled to Moscow after the protests.
“We continue to self-clean our ranks. And this process will continue,” said Malyuk, who added that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was kept in the loop on the countersurveillance operation.
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