The Lugansk People’s Republic Supreme Court has sentenced a Lutugino district resident to 13 years in prison for treason and espionage, the LPR Prosecutor General’s Office press service reported.
The defendant was recruited by agents of the Ukrainian penitentiary department as he was serving his sentence in Mariupol. Later on, he arrived in the LPR and joined the Republic’s militia at the order of the foreign secret service, the PGO said.
He took images and videos of LPR militia facilities, recorded the aftermath of Ukrainian army strikes at LPR militia positions and gathered other intelligence which he passed to the foreign secret service, prosecutors said.
The defendant denied his guilt at the court hearing and did not repent his actions.
“The LPR Supreme Court, on the strength of the body of evidence, sentenced him to 13 years in prison,” the PGO said.
Earlier, the LPR Supreme Court sentenced a resident of Alchevsk to 13.5 years in prison for high treason and public calls for extremism. *i*s
