Russia has sentenced a man to 19 years in prison for passing information about Russian soldiers to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
This was announced on Saturday by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), TASR writes, according to the report of the AFP agency.
The FSB said in a statement that the unidentified man, born in 1993, had been found guilty of “treason” and other charges, which it did not specify.
A man from the Russian city of Orenburg was accused by the FSB of “providing identity information and other personal data of Russian soldiers to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.” He was detained for the first time in January 2023, writes AFP.
The court in Orenburg sentenced the man to a 19-year sentence in a strict penal colony, the FSB said.
Since the beginning of the military invasion of Ukraine, Russian courts have handed out several high prison sentences for treason, terrorism and sabotage. People have been accused of working for Ukraine or cooperating with Western countries in order to weaken the Russian military operation, AFP notes.
