Adversary Intelligence — 2026-06-26

Top FSB Mole Inside Ukraine SBU Gets Life Sentence After Being Used to Feed Disinformation to Russia

BLUFKozyura's seven-year penetration of SBU's anti-terror command exposes how deeply FSB's pre-2014 political recruitment networks have compromised Ukraine's wartime security apparatus.

The Shevchenkivskyi District Court in Kyiv sentenced Colonel Dmytro Kozyura, former head of staff of the SBU's Anti-Terrorist Center, to life imprisonment for high treason under martial law 123. Babel and the Kyiv Independent report Kozyura was recruited by the FSB in Vienna in March 2018 and detained in February 2025 under SBU operation "Rat" 12. From 2024 through his arrest, he transmitted classified data on missile strike aftermaths, SBU unit locations, and critical infrastructure including the gas transportation system and air defense plans 23. The SBU stated it ran a counterintelligence operation using Kozyura to pass disinformation to Moscow and identified his FSB curator as Yuri Shatalov, a former aide to a former Party of Regions MP 2.

Analysis
The curator's documented link to former Party of Regions networks indicates FSB's wartime agent recruitment draws on pre-2014 political infrastructure, not post-invasion opportunism. The penetration extended to air defense dispositions and critical infrastructure protection plans. Sourcing traces entirely to SBU and Prosecutor General press statements with no independent judicial documentation, limiting confidence in official characterizations of the disinformation operation's scope. The uncontrolled collection window between his 2018 recruitment and 2025 detection remains classified. SBU's public emphasis on a successful feed operation may be reputational management concealing a longer uncontrolled exposure window before the turn, not a genuine counterintelligence win.

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