Ukraine detains alleged FSB agent recruited via TikTok for spying on military

Ukraine’s security service (SBU) detained a woman accused of spying for Russia after allegedly being recruited through TikTok, the agency said on Monday.

The 43-year-old woman, a local employee of a coal mining company in the Ukrainian Donetsk region, was reportedly tasked with identifying and photographing the positions of Ukrainian forces near the front-line town of Pokrovsk — currently one of the most active combat zones.

According to the SBU, intelligence officers with Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) noticed the woman’s TikTok livestreams and later recruited her. She allegedly switched to secure messaging platforms to communicate with the FSB.

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