Ukraine has detained seven Russian spies involved in the Dnipro attack. They provided coordinates and went to view the destruction.

Ukrainian intelligence services detained, this Friday, seven men suspected of being Russian spies. The Ukrainian Justice accuses them of having participated in the attack against a residential building last Saturday, in Dnipro, which resulted in 46 fatalities. The suspects will have provided coordinates to Russia and will have even gone to see the damage caused by the missile.

Vasyl Malyuk, head of Ukraine’s intelligence services, said this special operation was aimed at “exposing and detaining enemy agents.” “It is the result of painstaking work by our counterintelligence officials,” indicated the head of the organization, adding that the security services will not “forgive” these crimes, which cannot “go unpunished.” “The agents of the Russian Federation will have to answer for what they have done.”

Ukraine accuses the seven men having provided the coordinates of critical infrastructure in Dnipro, including companies in the energy sector, together with the Russian side. However, the attack ended up hitting a residential building, raising the possibility that it missed its target. That would have been the reason why the spies would have gone later to see and analyze the damage caused, to eventually study what was wrong with the missile’s trajectory.

Furthermore, Ukraine accuses the spies of having collected sensitive information related to Ukrainian troop movements, having even attempted to obtain data on kyiv’s air defense systems.

The head of the spy network was a citizen of Russian nationality and had already lived in Dnipro in 2014, having created a pro-Kremlin organization. He then fled to Russia, but returned to Ukraine as an undercover agent in October 2022 and recruited six more men to help him.

The Russian group communicated through anonymous messages and the locations were shared through photographs, Ukrainian intelligence services detailed.