Three residents of Zaporizhia were detained for financing the Ukrainian special services and the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Three local residents were detained in the Zaporizhia region on suspicion of financing the Ukrainian special services and the armed forces (AFU). This was reported on July 2 at the FSB Public Relations Center (PSC).

"In the territory of the Zaporizhia region, the activities of individuals who transferred funds to the Ukrainian special services and the armed forces of Ukraine were identified and suppressed," the agency said in a statement.

It is specified that two residents of Melitopol and the village of Malaya Belozerka in the Vasilyevsky district of the Zaporizhia region, as well as a resident of Energodar, transferred money to "settlement accounts used by the Ukrainian special services and the Armed Forces of Ukraine." The Investigative Department initiated criminal cases under Article 275 of the Criminal Code of Russia ("High treason").

"Confessions have been received from the detainees, and a preventive measure in the form of detention has been chosen for them," the ministry added.

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