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Secret information to Russians: Ukraine jails ex-soldier
In Ukraine, a former soldier has been sentenced to five years in prison for allegedly passing on military information to Russia.
The unnamed ex-soldier made contact with a "representative of the Russian domestic intelligence service FSB" via the online service Signal, the Kharkiv public prosecutor's office announced on Thursday. He then passed on the locations of soldiers and military equipment.
Ex-soldier confesses
Russia had used this information in the regions of Kharkiv in the north-east and Mykolaiv in the south "to carry out targeted airstrikes on Ukrainian defenders", the prosecutor's office added. It also stated that the man had been arrested near the frontline city of Kupjansk. He had "fully admitted his guilt".
Russia had launched an offensive in the Kharkiv region at the beginning of May. The Russian armed forces were able to make several territorial gains in the process.
More than 6600 criminal proceedings in Ukraine
According to the United Nations last year, Kiev has opened more than 6,600 criminal cases "against individuals for collaboration and other conflict-related offenses" since the start of the Russian war of aggression in February 2022.
Most recently, Ukrainian security authorities arrested six suspected agents of the Russian military intelligence service GRU in May, who allegedly supported Russia by passing on coordinates during an attack on a residential building in the eastern region of Donetsk. Nine people were killed and more than 80 injured in the attack.
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