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1 day ago · The occupation ‘Sevastopol municipal court’ has found 49-year-old Roman Hryhorian guilty of ‘treason’ under Article 275 of Russian’s criminal code and sentenced him to 12 years’ maximum-security imprisonment. The Ukrainian’s supposed ‘treason’ lay in his donations to the Armed Forces defending Ukraine against Russia’s invasion.

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Russia’s notorious Southern District Military Court in Rostov has sentenced 23-year-old Rustam Chyzhyk to ten year’s imprisonment on dubious ‘terrorism’ charges. Almost nothing is known about the specific indictment, nor about the trial, however Chyzhyk was one of at least five young Ukrainians abducted from Russian-occupied Hornostaiivka (Kherson oblast) in …

5 days ago · The ‘trial’ is shortly to begin in a Russian court of 75-year-old Ukrainian civic activist Volodymyr Ananiev, together with a couple possibly abducted from occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast. There is nothing to suggest that Ananiev had ever set eyes on Volodymyr Bodnar and Oksana Shevchenko, whom the Russian propaganda media call a couple and it is quite likely that all three were seized at ...

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Sep 27, 2024 · A Russian occupation ‘court’ in the so-called ‘Luhansk people’s republic’ [‘LPR’] has ‘sentenced’ two Ukrainians from Luhansk oblast, Oleksandr Sokolov and Viktor Soldatko, to 16 and 13 years, respectively. Both Ukrainians living in Ukraine were illegally charged under Article 276 (‘spying’) of the aggressor state’s criminal code, …