12:28 p.m .: The Russian secret service has arrested a Russian suspected of spying for Ukraine
The Russian Security Services (FSB) said on Tuesday they had detained a Russian citizen suspected of bringing secret documents to Ukraine and opened an investigation into treason amid a Russian offensive on their neighbor. “The FSB discovered that a Russian citizen committed high treason by leaking information to Ukraine to the detriment of the security of the Russian Federation,” the security services said in a statement.
According to the press release, this unidentified resident of the Moscow region, who ran an aviation factory, “photographed fragments of plans for fighter jet parts with a mobile phone before sending them to a Ukrainian citizen (…) , an employee of an aircraft factory in Odessa, a city in the southern Ukraine.
The facts would have taken place “when he was the technical director of an aircraft factory and had access to classified documents + top secret +,” the press release said. An investigation into “high treason” had been initiated, the FSB said, a crime punishable by very high prison terms in Russia. The suspect was taken into custody.