{"id":304990,"date":"2025-07-30T22:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/304990\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T22:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:07:17","slug":"ukraine-arrests-air-force-major-suspected-of-spying-for-russia-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/304990\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine arrests air force major suspected of spying for Russia \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukraine’s domestic security agency has arrested an air force officer accused of spying for Russia by leaking the locations and flight schedules of Western-supplied fighter jets, officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The officer, identified only as a major in one of Ukraine’s air brigades and a flight instructor, was allegedly working as an agent for Russia\u2019s military intelligence agency, Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) said <\/a>Wednesday. He is suspected of helping coordinate missile and drone attacks against key Ukrainian air bases.<\/p>\n

The officer is accused of gathering data on the locations and schedules of Ukrainian jets \u2014 including U.S.-made F-16s and French Mirage 2000s \u2014 and advising Russian forces on how to bypass Ukrainian air defenses, the SBU said in the Telegram post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine’s domestic security agency has arrested an air force officer accused of spying for Russia by leaking the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[2594,2814,2595,806,2817,2597,2598,332,811,51417,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-304990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-data","10":"tag-drones","11":"tag-industry","12":"tag-intelligence","13":"tag-military","14":"tag-missiles","15":"tag-russia","16":"tag-security","17":"tag-spying","18":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114944465466688449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}