The Ukrainian authorities announced today, Tuesday that five former and active intelligence agents are suspected that they provided information to the Russian security services (FSB), saying they had “neutralized” this “powerful network” of Moscow.

Ukrainian security services (SBU) hinted that five members of this “hostile organization” were arrested.

According to the attorney general’s office, these are “Ukrainian citizens”. One of them worked for a regional branch of the SBU, and the other four were, in the past, employees of the military intelligence service of the Ministry of Defense (GUR) and the foreign intelligence service.

The special services said they thus “neutralized a powerful network of FSB agents” operating in Ukraine.

According to the same source, their goal was to pass on information about the Ukrainian army to Russia and the “basic energy infrastructure” of the country.

Some of these agents had informed Moscow about the type of vehicles used by military intelligence, the location of Ukrainian soldiers, the security systems at two Ukrainian nuclear power plants, or even the route of foreign weapons into the country, according to the prosecutor’s office.

One of them also provided information on the defense systems near the Black Sea port city of Odessa and the multiple-launch missile systems of Kharkiv, in the north-east of the country, both of which are frequent targets of Russian strikes.

Agents are suspected of ‘high treason’ for providing that information for a fee, the prosecutor’s office said.

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion in February 2022, Ukraine has announced that it has uncovered a large number of Moscow agents who had infiltrated the State structures and mainly the secret services, sometimes in high positions.

Russian authorities, for their part, have accused some of their own citizens or foreigners of working on behalf of Ukraine, providing information or preparing acts of sabotage.