Employees of Ukraine’s SBU Security Service’s counterintelligence service has exposed repeated recruitment by representatives of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and security services of Russia-backed separatists of close relatives of Ukrainian military personnel. The SBU has said at least three wives of officers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were targets for recruitment.

According to the SBU’s press service, SBU agents said the wives of three officers were recruited during their stay with their parents in Russia and the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.