Couple caught spying for Russia in Dnipro – SBU

Source: Ukraine’s Security Service

A couple was arrested in Dnipro on Tuesday after they were caught spying on Ukrainian air defense systems and setting fire to Ukrzaliznytsia facilities.

Recruited by Russian intelligence, the family had their espionage and sabotage tasks divided equally – the wife gathered intelligence on the locations of Ukrainian air defense units, including anti-aircraft missile systems and radar stations marking their coordinates on maps, while her husband passed it on to their Russian handlers and acted as a saboteur. He was found to have set fire to a relay cabinet on a key railway line.

The couple allegedly started to work for Russian intelligence in June 2024.

Now both of them are facing treason and espionage charges -it can get them a possible sentence of 8 years in prison.