Budapest ordered its spies to find out whether ethnic Hungarians living in Ukraine might support invasion by the Hungarian army. Communications was by Signal.
>Budapest’s national military intelligence agency operated a clandestine spy network in west Ukraine with the mission of determining the level of local support to a possible invasion by Hungarian troops, the Security Service of Ukraine (Служба безпеки України – SBU) said in a Friday statement.
>SBU counter-intelligence operators in Ukraine’s far-western Zakarpattia (old name: Transcarpathia) region arrested two Ukrainian citizens secretly recruited to determine whether or not people living there would approve of a Hungarian “peacekeeping contingent” sent to the province, among other hostile spy missions ordered by Hungary and targeting Ukrainian national security, SBU spokesman Artem Dekhtaryenko said in the video announcement.
>The arrests, he said, marked the first time ever Ukrainian counterintelligence had broken up a spy ring from a NATO state. The pair also was tasked to collect sensitive information about the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) installations and units, to track local officials, and to construct and expand a local agent network, Dekhtaryenko said.
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Budapest ordered its spies to find out whether ethnic Hungarians living in Ukraine might support invasion by the Hungarian army. Communications was by Signal.
>Budapest’s national military intelligence agency operated a clandestine spy network in west Ukraine with the mission of determining the level of local support to a possible invasion by Hungarian troops, the Security Service of Ukraine (Служба безпеки України – SBU) said in a Friday statement.
>SBU counter-intelligence operators in Ukraine’s far-western Zakarpattia (old name: Transcarpathia) region arrested two Ukrainian citizens secretly recruited to determine whether or not people living there would approve of a Hungarian “peacekeeping contingent” sent to the province, among other hostile spy missions ordered by Hungary and targeting Ukrainian national security, SBU spokesman Artem Dekhtaryenko said in the video announcement.
>The arrests, he said, marked the first time ever Ukrainian counterintelligence had broken up a spy ring from a NATO state. The pair also was tasked to collect sensitive information about the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) installations and units, to track local officials, and to construct and expand a local agent network, Dekhtaryenko said.
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