He is accused of having guided Russian strikes on Ukrainian military objectives. A young man of 21 was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Ukraine for helping Russia target Missile attacksThe Ukrainian Security Services (SBU) said on Friday.
This young kyiv resident was responsible for transmitting the coordinates of buildings used by the Ukrainian army, such as generals or logistics centers, according to this source.
He “photographed in secret” these locations and sent the clichés to the Russian services (FSB) for the “preparation of new air strikes”, said the SBU. The Ukrainian services said that the young man was also preparing to carry out attacks and had been taken “in the act” of espionage near a military installation.
He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, according to this source, which did not indicate the date of this court decision, nor the court concerned.
A Russian also arrested in Moscow
Russia said on Friday to have stopped a resident of Moscow who provided an attack on the orders of Ukrainian services in the Russian capital and who is in detention for “terrorism”.
According to Russian investigators, this man was to recover, on the investigation of the Ukrainian security services, an explosive device hidden in a cache in a forest west of Moscow and commit an attack “in a very frequented place”.
Russia and Ukraine frequently accuse of recruiting, against remuneration, civilians to carry out attacks or acts of sabotage. In recent months, the Ukrainian authorities have reported several cases of adolescents recruited, according to them, via the Internet by the Russian secret services.
