In March 2024, an employee of one of the communal enterprises in Kramatorsk deliberately collected intelligence data and passed it on to a relative who had left for the Russian Federation at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, where she was recruited by an FSB officer and became an intermediary in transmitting this information to Russian special services.

The communal worker sent text messages to his relative with coordinates of fortifications in the Volnovakha district, in the construction of which he was involved. In particular, he informed about the locations of bunkers, trenches, and dugouts at one of the strategically important defensive lines in Donetsk region. He also recorded the positions of checkpoints and the locations of Ukrainian Armed Forces units that he saw during his travels along the region's highways. This information could have been used by the enemy to facilitate their advance in Donetsk.

Following the public prosecution by the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, he was found guilty of treason (part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment with confiscation of property. He awaited the court's verdict in custody.

The pre-trial investigation was conducted by the Main Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.