Ukraine mentioned Tuesday it had jailed two males for 10 and 12 years every for passing delicate details about army targets to Russia to assist its invasion.
Kyiv has waged an intense crackdown on 1000’s of Ukrainian officers and civil servants within the east and south who it says welcomed and labored with Russia after its invasion in February 2022.
The lads, residents of the japanese cities of Chasiv Yar and Kramatorsk, have been sentenced to 10 and 12 years jail respectively, the Donetsk area’s prosecutors workplace mentioned.
The resident of Chasiv Yar allegedly “marked the situation of checkpoints, trenches, dugouts and concrete constructions” in east Ukraine between March and April 2022, it mentioned.
He then handed that info to an unnamed resident within the Russian-occupied metropolis of Donetsk utilizing a messenger utility, it mentioned.
The Kramatorsk resident “marked on Google Maps the coordinates of the areas of the Ukrainian army in his metropolis” and despatched it to a Russian officer, it added.
The United Nations mentioned final yr Ukraine had opened greater than 6,600 felony instances “towards people for collaboration and different conflict-related crimes” for the reason that struggle started.
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