“A kyiv resident who wrote a letter to the Russian representative to the UN about her support for the “special operation” (Russian, Editor’s note) is sentenced to 14 years in prison for high treason,” the prosecutor’s office said. .
A Ukrainian court on Friday sentenced a woman accused of “high treason” for having written a letter to Russia’s representative to the UN justifying the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office.
“A kyiv resident who wrote a letter to the Russian representative to the UN about her support for the “special operation” (Russian, Editor’s note) is sentenced to 14 years in prison for high treason”indicated the prosecution in a press release on Telegram.
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According to this source, Vassili Nebenzia, permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, referred to this letter in a speech on February 28, 2022, to justify the large-scale invasion of Ukraine that began four days ago earlier.
Hundreds of people accused of collaboration with Moscow
In another statement, the kyiv prosecutor’s office explained that, pushed by Russian intelligence, the accused would have “writes that the Ukrainian people supported the so-called special operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, that looting, murder and theft had begun in Ukraine and that politicians officially called to “kill the Russians””.
Russia said at the time that it sought to protect Russian speakers living in Ukraine, as well as “demilitarize” and to “denazify” the country, a rhetoric repeatedly rejected by kyiv and the West.
kyiv has accused hundreds of people of collaborating with Russia since its invasion in February 2022, including people who transmitted military information to the Russian army or civil servants from the occupied territories who began working for the authorities installed by Moscow .
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