The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) confirmed today that it has arrested and charged a Russian national, a former employee of the US consulate in the Russian Far East, after he is accused of gathering information about the war in Ukraine on behalf of the US, it reported. state news agency TASS.
The suspect, Robert Sonov, passed on information to US embassy officials in Moscow about how the Russian recruitment campaign was causing political discontent ahead of Russia’s 2024 presidential election, TASS reported, citing the FSB.
The FSB said in a statement that Robert Sonoff, “former employee of the US Consulate General in Vladivostok” has been collecting since September 2022 “information on the conduct of a special military operation (in Ukraine), on (military) mobilization in the regions Russian.
In addition, the FSB said it plans to question US embassy officials who were in contact with Sonov, a Russian national who has been detained since May.
For its part, the embassy announced in May that “the charges against Sonov have absolutely no merit” and that “his only role at the time of his arrest was to compile summaries of press reports from available Russian news sources publicly”.
(BalkanWeb)
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