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Ukraine arrested a person for allegedly spying for Russia whereas impersonating a United Nations volunteer on the entrance traces, Kyiv’s safety service mentioned Monday.
“Disguising himself as a volunteer, the traitor spied on the areas of the Defense Forces [toward] Pokrovsk, the place the best focus of enemy assaults has been recorded to this point,” Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) mentioned in a press launch.
The man, described by the safety service as 34 years outdated and dealing for Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), allegedly pretended to be a neighborhood volunteer for the U.N.’s World Food Programme within the Russian-occupied Donetsk area.
Under the pretense of delivering humanitarian assist to native residents, he secretly recognized the areas of Ukrainian infantry and artillery positions and transmitted the data to Russia, the SBU mentioned.
Russian forces then used the info to plan new assaults on Pokrovsk, based on the press launch, which has been the main focus of a long-term assault.
The suspect has been charged with treason underneath martial legislation and faces potential life imprisonment and the confiscation of his property.
Ukraine and the U.N. have been at loggerheads since Secretary-General António Guterres appeared at a summit in Russia final week, the place he embraced Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian ally Alexander Lukashenko.
The U.N. meals assist group instructed POLITICO it was “cooperating” with the Ukrainian probe into the suspected spy.
“WFP is conscious that the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) has detained a person within the Pokrovsk space (Donetsk area), who recognized himself as a humanitarian volunteer working for a cooperating accomplice of WFP,” the World Food Programme mentioned in an announcement Monday night.
“WFP can affirm that the person detained just isn’t a WFP worker. The particular person nevertheless had a contractual relationship with an NGO accomplice of WFP till August 2024. We are actively cooperating with the authorities of their enquiries,” it added.
