The Security Service of Ukraine has announced that it has arrested a woman for leaking military information. The unnamed woman tapped her soldier husband for information and leaked it to a Russian soldier. She was reportedly promised Russian citizenship and a high standard of living when they occupied the region.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has announced that it has arrested a woman for revealing to Russian forces the location of her husband’s military unit and other military information. The woman, a 31-year-old wife and mother from Dnipropetrovsk, informed Russian intelligence services of the location of military buildings and front-line positions of military equipment in Donetsk and Zaporizhia, two regions of eastern Ukraine that have seen heavy fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces. According to the SBU announcement, the unknown woman is a “traitor”. “The criminal used her husband “in the dark”: she asked for information about the location of his military unit and other groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in advanced positions.” the SBU statement said. “She took such a step despite the fact that she is married to an Army officer and they have a son together. Her husband, being on the eastern front, regularly transferred money for the maintenance of the child,” he added. . She texted the classified information about the location of her husband’s military unit and other Ukrainian formations to a Russian soldier, the SBU said. He passed it to Russian military intelligence who shared it with frontline combat teams who used it to launch artillery, mortar and airstrikes. The SBU says she was promised Russian citizenship and a high standard of living if they can capture the region for her alleged treason. The woman, who began spying for the Russians in May, was arrested on September 2 and Ukrainian forces seized her computers and mobile phone terminals, the SBU said. Ukraine suffered significant losses on the eastern front in the early summer. Russian artillery shelling caused heavy casualties and Putin’s forces made some territorial gains in the Donbass. In June, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy admitted that Ukraine was losing up to 100 soldiers a day. Read the original article on Business Insider
