In Stavropol, a man was sentenced to 13.5 years for treason

A court in Stavropol sentenced a local resident to 13.5 years in a high treason case. This was announced on November 16 by the prosecutor's office of the Stavropol Territory in its Telegram channel.

"The court found that the attacker, being an adherent of pro—Ukrainian ideology, sharing the methods and goals of the activities of law enforcement agencies opposing Russia, entered into correspondence with an unidentified employee of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in January 2024," the report says.

According to investigators, the defendant expressed his willingness to cooperate with the Ukrainian special services and, on the instructions of the curator, collected information about the location of Russian military units and facilities of the fuel and energy complex.

The court found the man guilty under Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("High treason"). He will serve a term of 13.5 years in a penal colony. He was also given a two-year restriction of freedom.

Earlier, on November 24, a resident of the Kamensk-Dneprovsky district of the Zaporizhia region was sentenced to 16 years for treason. He transmitted information about the deployment of the Rosgvardiya unit in Energodar to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

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