Sevastopol court gives Russian man 12-year prison sentence for alleged spying

A Sevastopol court has sentenced a Russian citizen to 12 years in a high-security penal colony on treason charges after finding him guilty of gathering information for Ukrainian intelligence services, Interfax reported on Monday, citing the Russian FSB. The man, whose name is Yevgeny Petrushin, was also reportedly fined 100,000 rubles (about $1,480).

According to the FSB, Petrushin “gathered and passed on information about the activities of the Black Sea Fleet that could be used against the security of the Russian Federation to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate in 2020–2021.”

Petrushin was arrested on April 21, 2021 in Sevastopol. In June of that year, he was reported to have been transported from Crimea to Moscow.

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