FSB Agent Exposed: Detained SBU Major General Planned Murder of ATO Volunteer

Shaitanov passed information to Russia relating to Ukraine's security.

The SBU counterintelligence service has detained Major General Valery Shaitanov of the Service who, according to the agency, planned the murder of volunteer Adam Osmayev on the orders of Russian special services. This is reported by the SBU press service.

Shaitanov is suspected of high treason and committing terrorist acts. In particular, on the orders of Russian special services, he planned the murder of well-known volunteer Adam Osmayev.

According to SBU head Ivan Bakanov, this is the agency's most important exposure in the entire history of Independence.

As the case materials show, Shaitanov, a former head of the SBU Special Operations Center “A,” was in fact in agent contact under the pseudonym “Bobyl” with FSB Colonel Igor Yegorov.

According to counterintelligence, Yegorov is an employee of the Department of Counterintelligence Operations of the 1st Service of the FSB, a unit specializing in planning, organizing and carrying out intelligence and sabotage-terrorist operations both in Ukraine and in other countries.

The SBU states that it has indisputable evidence that, on the orders of Russian special services, Shaitanov planned terrorist acts on the territory of Ukraine.

For this, the FSB representative guaranteed a reward of 200 thousand dollars and a Russian citizen's passport. As the performer, Shaitanov specially selected a person among former special forces fighters.

In addition, Shaitanov collected and passed to the Russian side information about:

• the circumstances of certain covert operations in the ATO/JFO area and the officers involved in them
• international cooperation of domestic special services in the field of national security and defense
  
• senior officers of the Counterintelligence Department, operational units of the Security Service of Ukraine and the SBU Special Operations Center “A”
  
• the recruitment, study and engagement of officers of special and intelligence bodies to work for the FSB
  

Agent meetings on the territory of European countries have also been recorded: between Yegorov and Shaitanov, and with other citizens of Ukraine who were recruited to carry out tasks for the Russian special service.

Investigative actions are currently ongoing. Searches are being carried out at the places of residence and temporary stay of Shaitanov, as well as of Ukrainian citizens suspected of belonging to the agent network of FSB officer Yegorov. The circumstances of their illegal activities are being established.

In addition, using his official position, Shaitanov received intelligence information from senior and top SBU officers. During the pre-trial investigation, their involvement in disclosing classified information will be determined.

The issue of serving Shaitanov with a notice of suspicion of high treason and terrorist acts, and of choosing a preventive measure, is being decided. Procedural oversight of this criminal case is carried out by the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

ATO volunteer Adam Osmayev has survived several assassination attempts.

In June 2017 in Kyiv, an attacker fired at Osmayev while he was in the volunteer's car, but his wife Amina Okueva managed to prevent the murder. The volunteer with a gunshot wound was hospitalized. In October 2017 Okueva was killed when her car was shot at with assault rifles near Kyiv.

In December 2019, the Kyiv Region Prosecutor's Office together with the Kyiv Region police detained the perpetrators of the murder of Amina Okueva.