A US Army soldier was arrested on Wednesday for attempting to provide classified information about the main American battle tank to Russia, the Justice Department said.

Taylor Adam Lee, 22, of El Paso, Texas, faces charges of seeking to transmit national defense information to a foreign adversary, the department said in a statement.

"Taylor Lee allegedly attempted to provide classified military information on US tank vulnerabilities to a person he believed to be a Russian intelligence officer in exchange for Russian citizenship," said Roman Rozhavsky, assistant director of the FBI's counterintelligence division.

"Today's arrest is a message to anyone thinking about betraying the US -- especially service members who have sworn to protect our homeland," Rozhavsky said.

Lee, who was stati

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