Ukraine's Shadow War: Kyiv Battles Russian Spies & Teenage Saboteurs

• Ukraine faces an internal security threat from citizens recruited by Russia as informants and saboteurs since February 2022.
• Motivations for collaboration include financial desperation, ideological alignment, and coercion, often starting with 'easy earnings' via Telegram.
• Russian intelligence targets vulnerable demographics, including teenagers, for sabotage acts like setting fires to military vehicles.
• SBU has made several high-profile arrests, including a Kyiv bank insider, a Khmelnytskyi 'video trap' agent, and a Sloviansk railway saboteur.
• Kyiv has implemented strict anti-collaboration laws, including life sentences for high treason, as the 'war of the shadows' continues.