In Crimea, one of the accused of treason transferred to Kiev data on the location of the S-400 air defense system

One of the two detained in Crimea for high treason passed information to the Ukrainian special services about the location of the S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems. This was announced by an employee of the FSB of Russia in a video comment.

"It has been established that a resident of the village of Ilyinka in the Krasno-Perekopsky district of the Republic of Crimea in the Telegram community controlled by the special services of Ukraine posted and transmitted information about the location of the S-400 air defense system," he stated.

The detainee himself confessed to transferring data to Ukraine.

"I opened a Telegram channel, registered a page for myself and went to the site. And threw off the coordinates of the rocket launcher. I wanted to help Ukraine somehow," he said on the FSB video.

Earlier, the FSB Public Relations Center reported the detention on suspicion of treason of two residents of Crimea, who transmitted to the Ukrainian special services data on military personnel and the movement of military equipment and defensive facilities. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the peninsula. They established contacts via the Internet and the Telegram messenger with a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense and The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine transmitted personal data of representatives of the territorial defense of Crimea, as well as photo and video materials, coordinates of the locations of objects of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

The Investigative Department of the Federal Security Service for the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol opened criminal cases against them under Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (high treason), they were taken into custody.