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.
"A man born in 1979 accomplished intelligence assignments from the Security Service of Ukraine, he gathered information about the location of military facilities and secretly sent the information by email," the FSB said.
The other suspect "confirmed his plans of discrete cooperation with the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine in a phone call, but failed to share the information for reasons beyond his control," it said.
The FSB's investigative department opened criminal cases on counts of treason and secret cooperation with a foreign state.
Treason is punishable with up to 20 years of imprisonment, while the second offense entails up to eight years of imprisonment.
"The suspects were placed under arrest for two months," the FSB said.
The identity of both suspects was withheld.