Two Sevastopol residents detained for seeking to share info about Russian Defense Ministry's facilities with Ukraine - FSB

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has reported the detention of two Sevastopol residents for providing Ukrainian security services with information about Russian military facilities for remuneration.

"The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation has put an end to the illegal activity of two Russian citizens suspected of cooperating with foreign security services as forward observers," the FSB said on Monday.

According to the FSB, two Sevastopol residents born in 1979 and 1995 "initiated contact with Ukrainian security services to provide information about the location of Russian Defense Ministry facilities for remuneration, the leak of such information abroad could do harm to the national defense capacity," the FSB said.