The former head of the staff of the SBU’s Anti-Terror Center, Colonel Dmytro Koziura, was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Shevchenkivskyi District Court in Kyiv. He was charged with high treason and espionage for Russia during the war. This is the harshest sentence imposed on an SBU officer since the start of the full-scale invasion.
Koziura was detained in February 2025 during a special operation codenamed “Rat.” The arrest was carried out personally by then-SBU head Vasyl Malyuk. According to the SBU, the officer had worked for the service since 2014 and had headed the anti-terror department since 2019. Russian intelligence services initially kept him dormant before re-establishing contact in 2024.
Investigators accuse Koziura of passing classified information about Ukrainian weapons systems, critical infrastructure, the consequences of Russian attacks, and personal data of Ukraine’s leadership to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). A total of 14 episodes of his espionage activities were documented. Malyuk stated at the time that the SBU had monitored the traitor’s communications and at times deliberately fed disinformation to the Russians.
Source: www.bbc.com
