Law enforcement officers in Kuban detained a pensioner in a treason case.

FSB officers detained a 69-year-old man in the Krasnodar region, who was called an agent of the Ukrainian special services. The pensioner was arrested on charges of treason.

The suspect is a man born in 1957, a Russian citizen with a Ukrainian residence permit. According to law enforcement, he was in Kyiv in 2025, where he was recruited by representatives of the Security Service of Ukraine.

According to the FSB's version, the detainee came to Kuban to carry out tasks from his handler. In particular, he conducted "reconnaissance of the coastline" for the purpose of coordinating drone and unmanned boat strikes, TASS claims.

Law enforcement also believes that the pensioner was preparing some kind of sabotage against the Russian military. "He was given the coordinates of a cache containing explosive devices with the possibility of remote detonation," the FSB reported to Interfax-South.

From the operational video published by the FSB, it follows that the man was detained on the street, presumably in early autumn. Then, law enforcement officers in the footage bring him to the detention center, lead him through the corridors, and place him in a cell. The face of the detainee is obscured in the footage, and his name is removed from the audio track; the footage was shown on NTV.

Next in the video, the man talks about himself and his movements: a native of Ukraine moved to Russia in 1980 but planned to return to his homeland "in old age." In Kyiv, he "accidentally met" a certain Oleg, whose acquaintances presumably worked in the SBU. He then came to Anapa, where a friend found him a job.

According to the detainee, the first task he received was a trip to Kabardinka – he was instructed to walk along the shore near a sunken ship and "check the posts there." Then the man was sent to Rostov-on-Don, where he was given the task of photographing a specific building.

Later, he went to Goryachy Klyuch and retrieved eight explosive devices from a cache near a cemetery. According to the plan, he was supposed to prepare the bombs, go back to Rostov-on-Don, and plant the bombs near a gas pipe and trash bins.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that at the end of October, law enforcement officers suspected a resident of the Krasnodar region of preparing a terrorist attack on a Ministry of Defense facility. The man was detained and taken into custody, facing seven criminal charges.