A court in the occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia region sentenced a 34-year-old resident of the Tokmak district, born in 1991, to life imprisonment in a criminal case of sabotage, espionage, and participation in a sabotage community, reported the court's press service.
The man must spend the first five years of his sentence in prison, after which he will be transferred to a high-security colony, the court's message specifies. The court's message does not disclose the name of the accused, but later the Russian Prosecutor General's Office reported that his name is Nikolai John. Judging by the charge of espionage, not treason, he did not have Russian citizenship.
According to the prosecution, in May 2023, a resident of the Zaporizhzhia region contacted an acquaintance serving in the Ukrainian army via Telegram. At the military's suggestion, he "undertook obligations to collect and transmit information" about the personnel, armored vehicles, and military facilities of the Russian army "for further missile and bomb strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine."
According to the investigation, due to the actions of the Zaporizhzhia resident, the Ukrainian army struck the positions of Russian military with the HIMARS missile system, destroyed an anti-aircraft missile system, and three Russian servicemen were killed.