A five-year sentence to a 20-year-old student in the centre of Russia for allegedly working with Ukrainian special services and planning sabotage attacks on military bases, law authorities announced Monday.
The Kurgan region branch of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said the student, whose name it did not provide, had been detained earlier on suspicion of working with a foreign state.
The FSB’s statement, which was shared with state-run media outlets, said; “The defendant planned to commit sabotage at military and social infrastructure facilities”.
Law enforcement authorities also claimed the student had planned to distribute pro-Ukrainian propaganda online and provide details of military and police activity in the Kurgan region, located in Russia’s Ural Mountains.
Since launching full-scale hostilities in Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow has arrested a slew of foreigners and Russian citizens for allegedly working with Kyiv or planning attacks on army infrastructure.
|Guardian Life/The Moscow times
