Ukraine’s Security Service, the SBU, has caught two local officials in Ukraine’s east who were spying for Russia.

The SBU claims that the two men had been working in the local government of Zaporizhzhya — a city some 500 kilometers southeast of Kyiv, near the Donbas — for three years, in 2015–2018. During this time, “they were assisting the representatives of Russia’s special services in carrying out subversive activities against Ukraine,” the SBU reported on its website late on Oct. 12.