The two were sentenced to 10 and 12 years in prison respectively (representative)
Ukraine said on Tuesday it had sentenced two men to 10 and 12 years in prison respectively for passing sensitive information about military targets to Russia to aid its invasion.
Kiev has launched a harsh crackdown on thousands of Ukrainian officials and civil servants in the east and south, saying they welcomed Russia and cooperated with them after the Russian invasion in February 2022.
The two men, residents of the eastern cities of Chasiv Yar and Kramatorsk, were sentenced to 10 and 12 years in prison respectively, the Donetsk District Prosecutor’s Office said.
It is alleged that between March and April 2022, residents of Chasiv Yar “marked the locations of checkpoints, trenches, bomb shelters and concrete structures” in eastern Ukraine.
He then allegedly used a messaging app to pass the message to an unnamed resident of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk.
The report added that the Kramatorsk resident “marked the coordinates of the Ukrainian army’s location in his city on Google Maps” and sent it to a Russian officer.
The United Nations said last year that Ukraine had opened more than 6,600 criminal cases “against individuals for cooperation and other conflict-related crimes” since the war began.
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