The young woman who decided to go for a walk in the countryside beyond Odesa and watch military aircraft flying overhead last summer carefully made a note of what she saw on her phone’s Google Maps app.
She would go on to do the same on other walks, next to railway lines and near air defence systems secreted along the Black Sea coast. On what would be her final excursion, the 21-year-old was arrested on suspicion of collaboration with the enemy.
Interviewed by officers from the SBU, Ukraine’s internal security agency, she admitted sharing location co-ordinates with Kremlin spies on at least 20 occasions between July and August 2023, earning $50 a time. She was sentenced to eight years in prison.
The woman is
