Ukrainian Sentenced to 23 Years for Espionage and Sabotage

In Leningrad Oblast, a Ukrainian citizen was sentenced for arson and surveillance. The court in Leningrad Oblast sentenced 41-year-old Ukrainian citizen Vasily Kashperuk to 23 years of deprivation of liberty and a fine of 1 million rubles.

Consensus

The defendant is a 41-year-old Ukrainian national named Vasiliy Kashperuk.
He was sentenced by the Leningrad Regional Court on October 12.
The sentence includes 23 years of imprisonment and a fine of 1 million rubles.
He was found guilty of espionage, sabotage, attempted use of explosive materials, and surveillance of military and infrastructure facilities in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast.
The court determined he acted under instructions from an unknown individual.
The case involved collection of information about military and life-support infrastructure.
He was accused of setting fire to a transportation facility.
The case was reviewed by Judge Oksana Zhygarevich over 30 sessions, including two preliminary ones.
Kashperuk was detained and sent to pre-trial detention no later than December 28, 2023.

Points of divergence

The case involved 11 episodes of aiding sabotage and was classified as espionage and sabotage on regional and Saint Petersburg territory. — tg_severrealii
Kashperuk worked in a watch and retail store in Saint Petersburg in 2021 and moved to the city in the early 2010s. — mediazona
The court found Kashperuk guilty of attempted participation in sabotage and attempted illegal possession of explosives. — fontanka
A resident of Zaporozhye Oblast was sentenced to 14 years for treason and transferring data to Ukraine, which is a different case. — vesti
A man named Danila Ulyukov was sentenced to 8 years for being a drug courier in Krasnogorsk, which is unrelated. — vm
A man from Krasnodar Krai and his 19-year-old daughter were sentenced to 18 and 7 years respectively for treason and attempting to join the Ukrainian military, which is a separate case. — tg_tass_agency
Pavel Shitov was sentenced to 14 years in absentia for fraud and embezzlement related to the Smolensk Bank, which is unrelated. — interfax
Alexei Kopyagordsky, former mayor of Sochi, was sentenced to 15 years for bribery and fined 500 million rubles, which is unrelated. — riamo

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Ukrainian Sentenced to 23 Years for Espionage and Sabotage

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