In Ukraine, a former soldier has been sentenced to five years in prison for allegedly passing military information to Russia.
The unnamed ex-soldier made contact with a “representative of the Russian domestic secret service FSB” via the online service Signal, the Kharkiv prosecutor’s office said on Thursday. He then provided the locations of soldiers and military equipment.
Ex-soldier confesses
Russia used this information in the Kharkov regions in the northeast and Mykolaiv in the south “to carry out targeted airstrikes against Ukrainian defenders,” prosecutors added. She further explained that the man was arrested near the frontline city of Kupyansk. He “fully admitted his guilt.”
Russia launched an offensive in the Kharkov region in early May. The Russian forces were able to make several territorial gains.
More than 6600 criminal cases in Ukraine
According to the United Nations, Kyiv opened more than 6,600 criminal cases last year “against individuals for collaboration and other conflict-related crimes” since Russia’s war of aggression began in February 2022.
Most recently, in May, Ukrainian security authorities arrested six suspected agents of the Russian military intelligence service GRU, who allegedly supported Russia by providing coordinates in an attack on a residential building in the eastern region of Donetsk. Nine people were killed and more than eighty were injured in the attack.
Source: Krone
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