Ukraine’s State Security Service

(SBU) says on Oct. 23 it apprehended a high-level Russian intelligence agent and

a commissioned military officer who has been continuously coordinating

separatist activity inside the country since January.

Captured on the outskirts of Kyiv, he was identified as Nikolai Grechishkin of Moscow and was allegedly using

journalistic cover as the deputy chief editor of Rossiyskiye Novosti (Russian

News), according to an SBU statement released on Oct. 24.