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On Wednesday, December 4, the Ukrainian authorities announced that they had detained a 16-year-old minor. She is suspected of spying for Russia. She was providing information to Moscow for an airstrike against its Cherniguiv region in the north of the country.
The Ukrainian security service (SBU) announced this Wednesday, December 4, the arrest of a 16-year-old girl, accused of having helped Russia “prepare an airstrike” in her native region, Cherniguiv, north of Ukraine. Ukraine, near the Russian border. It is above all the age of the suspect that surprises the authorities: the arrest of a minor is quite rare in Ukraine.
Recruited by the GUR – Russian military intelligence – the young girl’s mission was to locate air defense systems and radars in the region. According to the SBU, the young girl traveled by taxi to “secretly” photograph military installations and transmit their geolocation to a superior in Russian military intelligence via a secure messaging application.
She is accused of “high treason”
The SBU “arrested the girl “red-handed while she was taking photos of a military installation.” Her phone, containing incriminating evidence, was also seized.
-On Telegram, the SBU shared excerpts of conversations in Russian, where a person asked for specific photos of military vehicles with geotags: “Take three photos from different angles in daylight,” it read. The teenager reportedly confirmed that she would carry out this task “today”. These exchanges reinforce the accusations of “high treason” against him, a crime which could earn him life in prison with the confiscation of his property.
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