Ukraine SSU Detains GRU Agent Who Infiltrated State Body to Steer Peace Negotiations

Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) said its counterintelligence branch, with the Prosecutor General's office, detained a Russian intelligence agent who had maneuvered for a senior post in a state energy-sector body 12. According to the SBU, Russian intelligence had recruited him before the February 2022 full-scale invasion, and he later coordinated his proposals directly with GRU leadership, seeking to broker unofficial talks with Russian services on a prospective peace deal and map vulnerabilities in Ukraine's critical infrastructure 12. The SBU named his GRU handler as Aslanbek Aktemirov and an earlier FSB handler as Rinat Amirov, to whom he had offered his Kyiv apartment for Russian use if the capital fell and passed information on active criminal proceedings in Ukraine's energy sector obtained through law-enforcement contacts; searches of his property turned up a Russian passport and a phone with evidence of the contacts 123. SBU investigators charged him with high treason under Article 111 of Ukraine's criminal code; he is held without bail and faces up to 15 years in prison and confiscation of his assets 123.