The Security Service of Ukraine announced the detention of the Chinese, who, according to her, were engaged in espionage.
“The counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine detained two citizens of the Chinese People’s Republic in Kyiv, who tried to illegally remove the secret documentation for the Ukrainian missile system RK-360MC” Neptune “to China. This is a unique weapon of defense forces of Ukraine, intended for a fire defeat of all types of combat and landing ships. We recall that it was from Neptune the flagship was destroyed The Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation is the Moscow missile cruiser, ”the SBU statement said in telegram.
As the investigation established, one of the Chinese is a 24-year-old former student of one of the Kyiv technical universities. He remained in Kyiv after he was expelled for academic poor performance in 2023.
Another person involved is his father, who was constantly living in the PRC, but periodically visited Ukraine, “in order to personally coordinate the agent work of his son.”
on the case materials, a former Chinese student must receive technical documentation for the production of Ukrainian “Neptunes”.
“For this purpose, he tried to recruit a Ukrainian citizen related to the development of the latest weapons of defense forces,” the statement said.
The defendants threatens up to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property.