The head of the city of Poltava was already on the Ukrainian “kill list

Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, arrested Alexander Mamai on Thursday, saying the mayor of Poltava had revealed information about military deployments. The opposition politician now faces up to 12 years behind bars.

SBU agents surrounded Mamai after an event and took him to his office, local media reported. The security service posted photos of the arrest on their Telegram channel, with the faces of people involved blurred to satisfy privacy requirements.

Mamai was informed that he was under suspicion of “unauthorized dissemination of information about the deployment of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, committed under martial law,” according to the SBU. The information he revealed had not been made publicly available by the General Staff, the Defense Ministry, or “other authorized state bodies,” according to the agency.