Traitor who passed on Azov Regiment positions to Russia sentenced to 16 years in prison

UKRAINSKA PRAVDA — MONDAY, 5 SEPTEMBER, 2022, 12:50

A Ukrainian who passed on information regarding the positions of Azov Regiment forces and other intelligence to the Russian FSB has been sentenced to 16 years behind bars; his accomplice was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Source: website of the Office of the Prosecutor General; website of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU)

Details: Representatives of the Russian FSB recruited the resident of Kyiv Oblast in 2017. Until February 2022, he reported the locations of Azov Regiment forces and information about individual servicemen to Russian Intelligence.

In May 2022, while staying in Egypt, the man contacted Donetsk-based militants of the self-proclaimed pseudo-republic, using social media, and began to cooperate with them. He and a resident of Chernihiv Oblast collected intelligence for militants, reporting information on the location of schools and kindergartens in Chernihiv Oblast, as well as positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In early June, the man returned to Ukraine’s Chernivtsi Oblast, where he collected information on the location of critical infrastructure facilities: railway crossings, tunnels, bridges, and railway traffic schedules.

According to the SSU, he was also intended to scout the locations of fuel tanks and the deployment of Ukrainian military units in Bukovyna. Russian forces planned to use the received data for sabotage: explosions at railway facilities, logistics warehouses, etc.

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Law enforcement officers detained the traitor in Chernivtsi and his accomplice in Chernihiv. The first man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison with confiscation of property for treason and carrying out illegal intelligence activities for the benefit of a terrorist organisation (Part 2 of Article 111, Part 1 of Article 258-3 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). His accomplice will spend 10 years in prison for the illegal gathering of intelligence.

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