CrimeaPRESS reports:
The terms of imprisonment range from 11 to 16 years.
Five SBU agents were sentenced in Crimea to terms ranging from 11 to 16 years for collecting information about the Russian Armed Forces in the SVO zone. About it reported at the Public Relations Center (PSC) of the FSB of Russia.
The decisions of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea convicting agents of the Ukrainian special services detained by Russian FSB officers on suspicion of espionage have entered into legal force.the message says.
According to the FSB, in the course of operational investigative activities, Ukrainian citizens were identified: Nikolai Nikolaevich Petrovsky, born 11/19/1993, Sergey Anatolyevich Kotov, born 08/21/1972, Ivan Vladimirovich Kozlov, born 07/07/1988, Arefiev Sergey Alekseevich, born 09/08/1992, and Zarivny Alexander Grigorievich, born 12/17/1968. The spies collected and transmitted information to representatives of the SBU about the locations, numbers and movement routes of units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the zone of a special military operation. The information they transmitted was used by Ukrainian paramilitary forces to adjust artillery and missile and bomb attacks on the positions of the Russian Armed Forces.
The investigative department of the FSB Directorate for the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol initiated criminal cases under Art. 276 (espionage) and Art. 275 (high treason) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation— the FSB TsOS clarified.
The court sentenced Petrovsky to 16 years in prison, Kotov — 15 years, Zarivny — 13 years, Kozlov and Arefyev — 11 years each in a maximum security colony.
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