The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), together with the police of Ivano-Frankivsk region, has detained a fire spotter who directed a Russian Kalibr strike at the Ivano-Frankivsk airfield, the regional police has reported.

"The traitor to Ukraine arrived in Ivano-Frankivsk on February 22. He settled in a motel near the airfield. On February 23, on the eve of the Russian missile and bomb attack on Ukraine, he transmitted information about the location of a military facility to Russia. As a result of missiles hitting the airfield, its infrastructure was destroyed. After that, the spotter reported the result of the strike to the Russian Federation," the police said in a message posted on its Facebook page.

According to the police, the saboteur was caught red-handed when he tried to commit the next crime aimed at reducing the defense capability of Ukraine.