Ukraine arrests high ranking traitor for 'passing top secret Special Forces info to Russia'

The suspected treble cause wrong Ukraine's quality work had been recruited earlier the warfare started but was lone activated this spring, according to reports

Ukraine has detained a suspected high-ranking traitor wrong its military quality directorate who "passed details of clandestine operations to Moscow".

The revelation of the GUR lieutenant-colonel acting arsenic a “mole” is simply a devastating stroke for Ukraine. The unnamed treble cause had been recruited earlier the warfare started but was lone activated this spring, according to reports. The fishy present faces beingness imprisonment and confiscation of spot if convicted.

Using his high-level position, helium allegedly passed details of Ukrainian operations successful Crimea and different occupied areas to his Russian spymasters. He has entree to accusation connected planned routes, weapons and targets of Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SOF).

Russia “planned to usage this accusation to liquidate Ukrainian peculiar forces connected the beforehand enactment oregon beyond it”. The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, was intimately progressive successful the apprehension of the suspected mole.

The revelation of a spy wrong the ranks of the GUR is simply a superior setback for the agency’s brag Lt General Kyrylo Budanov, seen successful Kyiv arsenic 1 of the outstanding heroes of the war. The handcuffed colonel is pictured from down aft being taken into detention. His means of concealed communication, machine equipment, mobile telephone and accusation retention devices were seized.

The cognition to unmask and detain the suspected cause was carried retired by the SBU - Ukraine’s information work - on with subject counterintelligence. “The SOF continues to transportation retired tasks, destruct the force and liberate the Ukrainian onshore from the occupiers,” said a connection aft his arrest.

And each those who deliberation they tin forestall this and enactment the lives of our soldiers astatine hazard volition beryllium exposed and sent to jail. “The force volition consciousness the results of palmy operations connected himself.”