A resident of Sevastopol was sentenced to 14 years for passing information to the special services of Ukraine.

In Sevastopol, a court sentenced a 52-year-old local resident to 14 years in prison for treason. This was announced on August 7 in the press service of the city prosecutor's office in the Telegram channel.

According to the investigation, in the period from December 2023 to April 2024, the man was recruited through a messenger by an employee of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). On the instructions of the curators, the defendant took a mobile phone with the necessary software for transmitting photos and other information about the location of weapons and military facilities of the Russian army from the cache prepared for him.

Currently, the attacker has been detained and taken into custody. It is noted that the court found the defendant guilty under Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("High treason") and sentenced the perpetrator to 14 years of imprisonment to be served in a high-security penal colony with restriction of liberty for a period of one year.

The day before, a court sentenced a 31-year-old resident of Simferopol to 18 years in a penal colony for passing information about an oil depot in Feodosia to the Ukrainian special services. It is specified that the person involved collected information about the movement of a locomotive with tanks of petroleum products to the reception point and sent them to a chatbot used by the Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

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