Ukrainian special services agent expelled from Bryansk region, banned from entering Russia for ten years
BRYANSK. Dec 2 (Interfax) - Officials from the Federal Security Service's Department for the Bryansk region detained a Ukrainian Security Service agent and then had to release him as he had not had the time to fulfill his mission and made a confessionary statement.
The Federal Security Service's Department for the Bryansk region told Interfax that Ivan Serdyuk, 22, a resident of the village of Kyus, Chernihiv region, had crossed the Russian border at the Novye Yurkovichi checkpoint in November 2015. He was detained by Federal Security Service officials upon his return.
"During questioning, Ivan Serdyuk made a confessionary statement, saying he works for the Ukrainian Security Service. He had been detained for illegal border-crossing more than once. His curators demanded that Ivan Serdyuk should surrender to our border guards and then, complaining about his bad life in Ukraine and showing his wish to stay in Russia, gain their trust, become their agent and provide them with false information," an official with the Federal Security Service's Department for the Bryansk region said.
Because Serdyuk has not fulfilled his mission, he "was just expelled to Ukraine, to his wife and children" and was banned from visiting Russia until 2025.
According to earlier reports, the Bryansk regional court in November 2015 sentenced Russian citizen Viktor Shur to 12 years in a high-security colony for spying for Ukraine. He was found guilty of conducting investigative activities in the territory of the Bryansk region on December 9, 2014 by collecting information on a secure Defense Ministry facility, which constituted a state secret, on the orders of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service. The collected information, if provided to the Ukrainian special services, could have been used against Russia's security. Shur admitted his guilt.
