Man who spied on Ukrainian Navy ships in Mykolaiv sentenced to 12 years in prison

According to the SBU, a Russian informant who spied on the ships of the Defense Forces near the port of Mykolaiv was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

The Russian informant was collecting intelligence on the Defense Forces near the Black Sea, the SBU reported.

Cyber ​​​​specialists of the service detained him at his place of residence in Mykolaiv in early 2024, when he returned from a reconnaissance sortie.

According to the case materials, the man spied on port basing points and directions of raids of combat vessels of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the State Border Guard Service.

The occupiers also planned to obtain from the informant the geolocations of reserve command posts of land units of Ukrainian troops performing tasks on the front line.

According to the investigation, the enemy agent turned out to be a local unemployed man who came into the aggressor’s field of vision through his anti-Ukrainian comments in Telegram channels.

After recruitment, the man began to walk around the coastal area of ​​Mykolaiv, where he recorded the locations of Ukrainian defenders and marked the corresponding coordinates on Google Maps.

During a search of the detainee’s apartment, a mobile phone was seized, from which he had contacted his supervisor, a Russian intelligence officer.

The court sentenced the informant to the maximum sentence in accordance with the articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine with which he was charged:

• Part 3 of Article 114-2 (unauthorized dissemination of information about the direction, movement of weapons, movement, relocation or deployment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, committed under martial law);

• Part 1, 3 of Article 436-2 (justification, recognition as lawful, denial of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, glorification of its participants).

Earlier, USM reported that the admirals of the Russian Black Sea Fleet were suspected of shelling Odesa.