Moscow Convicts Two Ukrainians of Terrorism and Espionage

The Supreme Court in the Lugansk region sentenced a Ukrainian to thirteen years in prison for providing information on Russian troop movements in the Kharkiv region as early as 2022.

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A Russian bailiff in a corridor of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court in Yekaterinburg, Russia, on July 18, 2024. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV / AFP)

Courts in Russia and its occupied territories in Ukraine sentenced two Ukrainians to lengthy prison terms on Thursday, August 8, for terrorism and espionage for Kiev. In the first case, a court in southern Russia handed down a 12-year prison sentence to Tetiana Klyuchko, who was found guilty of participating in a terrorist group and attempting to commit a terrorist act. According to the Rostov region prosecution, Tetiana Klyuchko had joined an underground group in 2023 and had expressed her readiness to “participating in the preparation and execution of a terrorist act in the Zaporizhzhia region”.

According to the prosecution, she placed an explosive device in a mailbox in an apartment in Energodar, a town near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is now controlled by the Russians, on instructions from Ukrainian secret services. The explosive device had been discovered by neighbors, according to prosecutors.

In another case, the Supreme Court in the Lugansk region, which is almost completely under Russian control, sentenced a Ukrainian to thirteen years in prison for espionage. Yuriy Galetsky was accused of providing information about the movements of Russian troops in the Kharkiv region as early as 2022 and passing it on to the Ukrainian services.


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