Russia's Federal Security Service
(FSB) has admitted the fact of espionage in Ukraine involving its
secret agents, though it is surprised over disclosure of this fact by
the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) officials saying that such
situations are usually settled by the intelligence services conjointly,
UKRINFORM reported.
FSB officials said they are investigating into the accident in Odesa region.
According to the FSB
press-center, the actions of the FSB agent 'served a response and were
conditioned by an intensified recruiting activity of Ukraine's
intelligence services toward Russian citizens'. As UKRINFORM reported,
on January 27 the Security Service of Ukraine detained in Odesa region
four officers of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) for
espionage. The spies were detained in the act when they received secret
military information from a Ukrainian citizen, SBU chief Valentyn
Nalyvaichenko has said Tuesday.
He specified that the FSB secret agents recruited the Ukrainian by threatening and blackmailing him.
Three FSB officers and a
military man from the Operational Group of Russian Forces (OGRF) in the
Transnistrian Region of Moldova provided support to the spy operation.
Espionage case was opened against the FSB officer (colonel). He is arrested. The case will be investigated in Ukraine.
Other spy ring agents, who entered Ukraine from Transnistria, have been handed over to Russian border guards on January 30.
