The FSB announced the arrest of a married couple in Nizhny Tagil suspected of espionage

FSB officers have detained a married couple who are suspected of spying for Ukraine at a military-industrial complex enterprise in Nizhny Tagil, Interfax reports citing the security service.

“As a result of a special operation in Nizhny Tagil, two citizens of Russia were detained, who transferred military-technical information to the special services of Ukraine for a monetary reward, which can be used against the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the context of a special military operation,” the agency quotes a press release from the FSB department. in the Sverdlovsk region.

The names of the suspects have not been released. They were arrested under the article on "treason" ( 275 of the Criminal Code , punishable by imprisonment for a term of 12 to 20 years).

“Items of espionage activity were confiscated at the place of residence of the suspects,” the FSB added.

The security service released a video of the arrest of the suspects. It deals with the transfer of drawings. On the record, the woman reports that they received "in the region of a hundred".

• On March 30, the FSB announced the arrest of The Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich in Yekaterinburg. The intelligence service claims that, on instructions from the United States, he collected information constituting a state secret about one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex. A Meduza source among Western journalists said that Gershkovich traveled to Nizhny Tagil, where the defense plant Uralvagonzavod is located. The journalist was arrested on a case of espionage, he is in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center in Moscow.