Ukraine Arrests School Vice Principal for Aiding Russian Strikes
Ukraine said it has arrested a vice principal at a local school in eastern Ukraine’s Kramatorsk for providing coordinates to Moscow to aid attacks on the city.Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, sits approximately 18 kilometers (11 miles) east of the active front and is a key Ukrainian stronghold in the region’s defense, whose capture remains an official Kremlin war goal and the subject of ongoing negotiations.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), in a Wednesday press release, said the woman was recruited in Belarus by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) during her visit to the country in 2022, soon after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine started.The woman was activated by the FSB in the summer of 2025, the SBU said, where she was tasked with relaying locations of Ukrainian troops and equipment in Kramatorsk.“To carry out the enemy’s task, the figure went around the district center and recorded the largest concentration of personnel and equipment of Ukrainian troops,” the SBU said.“In addition, the woman tried to covertly solicit intelligence information through acquaintances during everyday conversations,” it added.The SBU said the woman transmitted the information via voice and text messages to her handler. Authorities arrested her at her place of residence and confiscated the smartphone she used to communicate with the FSB.The agency added that precautionary measures are taken to “secure the locations of Ukrainian troops” after she leaked the coordinates.
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The woman has been served a notice of suspicion – a legal step preceding formal charges in the Ukrainian legal system – for high treason during martial law, where she faces life imprisonment with confiscation of properties if convicted.Kramatorsk has been a frequent target of Russian attacks. On April 11, hours before the Easter ceasefire came into force, Russia dropped an aerial bomb on the city’s center and injured 10 civilians.On Aug. 25, 2024, Russia’s combined drone-and-missile strikes hit a hotel in Kramatorsk, wounding two journalists and leaving a third missing in the rubble.
