Russia’s special services detained the top manager of an aircraft factory suspected of passing secret military information to Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported on Tuesday, citing the FSB, Reuters reports.

FSB headquarters in MoscowPhoto: DreamsTime

The FSB reported that the man is suspected of photographing Russian fighter jet equipment and sending it to a Ukrainian citizen who worked at a Ukrainian aircraft factory.

A citizen of Russia from the Moscow region, who managed an aircraft factory, “took pictures on a mobile phone of fragments of plans of fighter parts, before sending them to a citizen of Ukraine (…), an employee of an aircraft factory from Odesa. “, a city in the south of Ukraine, said the press release of the special services, quoted by AFP.

The events took place “when he was the technical director of the aircraft factory and had access to top secret documents,” the report also states.

The FSB announced that it had opened a case of treason against the suspect.

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