Romanian citizen sentenced to 15 years for spying for Ukraine

MOSCOW, June 19 – RIA Novosti. A citizen of Romania, who passed data on air defense systems in Sochi to Ukrainian curators and was detained in the Krasnodar Territory, was sentenced to 15 years for espionage, the FSB Central Election Commission reported on Friday.

“The conviction of the Krasnodar Regional Court against Romanian citizen Kercho D.A., born in 2002, for intelligence activities in favor of the intelligence services of Ukraine has entered into legal force... By a court decision, the foreigner was found guilty of committing a crime under Article 276 (espionage) of the Criminal Code of Russia. He was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment in a maximum security correctional colony,” the message says.

In August 2024, the defendant, on instructions from the Ukrainian special services, collected and transmitted information about the locations of air defense systems located in Sochi. For this, the Ukrainian curator promised to help the Romanian citizen leave Russia and join the Ukrainian armed formation banned on the territory of the Russian Federation to participate in hostilities against Russia.