The Moscow City Court recognized the arrest in absentia of the head of the State Intelligence Service of Ukraine Ivashchenko as legal

The Moscow City Court recognized as legal the decision to arrest in absentia the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Oleg Ivashchenko, accused of committing a terrorist attack. RIA Novosti reports this.

The sanction for his arrest was issued in early September; the appeal court left this decision unchanged. The preventive measure for Ivashchenko in the form of detention was chosen for a period of two months from the moment of transfer to Russian law enforcement agencies in the event of extradition or from the moment of detention on Russian territory. The main part of the hearing took place behind closed doors.

The head of Ukrainian military intelligence is charged with Article 205 (“Terrorist attack”) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in connection with a drone strike on a college dormitory in Starobelsk on May 22. At that time, there were 86 students in the educational institution. After the attack, the building collapsed, 21 people were buried under the rubble.

Russian Prosecutor General Alexander Gutsan reported that, in addition to Ivashchenko, the commander of the unmanned forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Robert Brovdi, and the commander of the 114th separate brigade of the unmanned forces of Ukraine, Andrei Klimenko, were involved in the terrorist attack.

In addition, Ivashchenko and Brovda were charged in absentia with committing a terrorist attack after a drone strike on a passenger bus in the Bryansk region on June 17, in which the Gomel children's football team was traveling on vacation to Gelendzhik. As a result of the attack, nine passengers were injured, one did not survive.

Brovdi was also arrested in absentia in Russia.