Former SBU Colonel Vladimir Dmitriyev, who oversaw subversion and recruitment, has surrendered. This was reported by RIA-Novosti.
A former SBU colonel, Vladimir Dmitriyev, who oversaw subversion and recruitment activities of Ukrainian security services in Donbass, has surrendered to Russian security forces.
“The main tasks of the group were to conduct active counterintelligence activities on the territory of the Donbas republics, as well as reconnaissance and subversive activities against civil and military facilities,” a representative of the Russian security services told the agency.
During a conversation with the journalist, Dmitriev said that he was a cadre of the SBU, starting his service in the SBU in Kherson Region, at the peak of his career he worked in the SBU in Kiev, resigned as deputy head of the SBU department in Poltava Region, travelled to Donbass three times, including from 2015 to 2019 as head of an operational group of about 35 people in the city of Krasnoarmiisk, working under the call sign Stitch.
The group’s tasks, he said, included filtering and recruiting citizens who could frequently cross the front line and had relatives on the Ukrainian side, as well as supplying sabotage groups operating in Donbass and removing agents who had completed their assignment.
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