A resident of Crimea provided Ukraine with data on warships

The Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea sentenced a 32-year-old resident of the Crimean city of Yalta to 18 years and 20 days in a maximum security colony for transmitting data to Ukrainian intelligence about the deployment of warships in Sevastopol, the republic’s prosecutor’s office reported. The court found that the man, being an opponent of the SVO, contacted a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in mid-2023 via the Internet and expressed his readiness to work against Russia. At the end of 2023, he filmed and sketched diagrams of the deployment of warships in Sevastopol, and he sent all the collected information to the curator.

The court, taking into account the position of the state prosecutor and a previous criminal record, sentenced the man to 18 years 20 days in prison to serve the sentence in a maximum security correctional colony and further restriction of freedom for 1 year 10 monthssays the Telegram channel of the republic’s prosecutor’s office.

In relation to the man, the investigative department of the Federal Security Service of Russia for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol investigated a criminal case under Art. 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (high treason). The Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea clarified that the unserved part of the sentence under the 2024 sentence under Art. 264.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (driving a vehicle while intoxicated by a person subject to administrative punishment or having a criminal record).

source: TASS