{"id":8635,"date":"2025-07-09T12:01:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/ukraine-detains-chinese-spies-tasked-with-stealing-neptune-missile-technology-sbu-says\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T12:01:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:01:59","slug":"ukraine-detains-chinese-spies-tasked-with-stealing-neptune-missile-technology-sbu-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/ukraine-detains-chinese-spies-tasked-with-stealing-neptune-missile-technology-sbu-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine detains Chinese spies tasked with stealing Neptune missile technology, SBU says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/IMAGE-2025-07-09-13-04-09.jpg\" alt=\"Ukraine detains Chinese spies tasked with stealing Neptune missile technology, SBU says\"><\/p>\n<p>The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has detained two Chinese nationals in Kyiv suspected of attempting to steal classified military technology related to Ukraine&#8217;s Neptune cruise missile system, the agency announced on July 9.<\/p>\n<p>According to the SBU, the two individuals, a 24-year-old former student of a Kyiv technical university and his father, were <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/SBUkr\/15283\">gathering<\/a> secret documentation with the intent to illegally transfer it to Chinese intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The younger man, who remained in <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/ukraine\/\">Ukraine<\/a> after being expelled from university in 2023 for poor academic performance, allegedly attempted to recruit a Ukrainian national with access to classified defense technologies in order to obtain technical data on the RK-360MC <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/neptune-missiles\/\">Neptune<\/a> missile system.<\/p>\n<p>China has emerged as one of Moscow&#8217;s key wartime partners, helping Russia circumvent sanctions and becoming the largest supplier of <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/russian-weapons-contain-growing-number-of-cinese-components-material\/\">dual-use goods<\/a> aiding its defense sector.<\/p>\n<p>President Volodymyr Zelensky has <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/china-suts-drone-sales-to-ukraine-west-but-continues-supplying-russia-bloomberg-reports\/\">repeatedly accused<\/a> China of backing Russia and signed an order on July 8 <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/ukraine-sanctions-5-chinese-firms-for-supplying-components-used-in-russian-drones-06-2025\/\">imposing sanctions<\/a> on five Chinese-registered companies for allegedly supplying components found in Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/ukraines-new-interceptor-drones-are-starting-to-knock-russias-long-range-shahed-drones-out-of-the-sky\/\">Shahed-type drones<\/a> used to attack Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The Neptune, a Ukrainian-developed coastal defense missile, gained international attention after it was used to sink the Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/black-sea-fleet\/\">Black Sea Fleet<\/a> flagship <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/ukrainian-military-publishes-audio-from-sinking-of-moskva-cruiser\/\">Moskva<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AiPVrQFutcY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen title=\"Chinese POWs captured by Ukraine on fighting for Russia\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>The SBU said the former student was caught &#8220;red-handed&#8221; during the transfer of sensitive documents, and his father was detained shortly afterward. Investigators allege the elder suspect, who resides in <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/china\/\">China<\/a> but made periodic visits to Ukraine, personally supervised his son&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/espionage\/\">espionage<\/a> activities.<\/p>\n<p>Searches of the suspects&#8217; belongings uncovered mobile phones containing evidence of coordinated efforts to spy on Ukrainian military technology, including encrypted communications between the two men.<\/p>\n<p>Both suspects have been charged with <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/espionage\/\">espionage<\/a>. If convicted, they face up to 15 years in prison and confiscation of property. <\/p>\n<p>Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/ukrainian-neptune-missile-hits-russian-drone-warehouse-in-rostov-oblast-sbu-source-claims\/\">struck<\/a> a Russian warehouse storing ammunition and reconnaissance drones with a Neptune missile near the village of Chaltyr in Russia&#8217;s Rostov Oblast in a January operation carried out by the <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/sbu\/\">SBU<\/a> and Ukraine&#8217;s Navy.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-bookmark-card\"><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/ukraine-sanctions-5-chinese-firms-for-supplying-components-used-in-russian-drones-06-2025\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-title\">Ukraine sanctions 5 Chinese firms for supplying components used in Russian drones<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-description\">The decree follows a publication by Ukraine\u2019s Security Service (SBU), which said it recovered Chinese-made parts from downed Shahed drones during a July 4 air assault on Kyiv.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-metadata\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kg-bookmark-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/assets\/images\/favicon.ico\" alt=\"Ukraine detains Chinese spies tasked with stealing Neptune missile technology, SBU says\"><span class=\"kg-bookmark-author\">The Kyiv Independent<\/span><span class=\"kg-bookmark-publisher\">Tim Zadorozhnyy<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-1489471985-1-.jpg\" alt=\"Ukraine detains Chinese spies tasked with stealing Neptune missile technology, SBU says\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8211; https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/ukraine\/rss\/<\/p>\n<p>This article appeared on the websitekyivindependent.com<br \/>\nThis article is taken based on Law no. 8\/1996 of Romania. News does not enjoy copyright, so they can be taken, this is our right to take news and information in its entirety and distribute them further. The content was made available to us through the rss mechanism<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/ukraine-detains-2-chinese-nationals-suspected-of-spying-on-neptun-missile-technology-sbu-says-06-2025\/\">Original Content<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has detained two Chinese nationals in Kyiv suspected of attempting to steal classified military technology related to Ukraine&#8217;s Neptune cruise missile system, the agency announced on July 9. 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