Oleg Kalayda, 50, a former Ukrainian police officer, was described by Ukrainian media outlets linked to the SBU as having “greeted the occupiers with bread in Balakliia,” earning him the …
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Lyudmila Kyslyak: correcting reports of shelling that never happened
by Editorby EditorOn August 22, 2023, SBU officers detained Lyudmila Kyslyak, a 58-year-old pensioner residing in the village of Verkhnya Syrovka in the Sumy region. Following the arrest, the SBU press service …
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Pentsov and Isinov: 15-Year Prison Sentences and Evidence from a Public Restroom
by Editorby EditorIn early August 2023, the SBU press service announced the arrest in Kharkiv of two young men, aged 18 and 20, who, posing as cyclists, toured the city and its …
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Vasiliy Romanyshyn: 15 years in prison for a spell wishing Putin health
by Editorby EditorIn mid-April 2024, Vasiliy Romanishyn was sentenced to 15 years in prison – a “traitor who spied for the FSB in Mykolaiv.” According to the prosecution, Romanyshyn attempted to locate …
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Dmitry Tikhov: Jailed for calling for the overthrow of power “in an indirect form”
by Editorby EditorArchpriest Dmitry Tikhov was born in Ivano-Frankivsk and served as a clergyman in the Vinnytsia diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). A father of three, he served in a …
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In mid-March 2022, Elena Fastunova, a chief legal counsel at the Obolon District Administration’s administrative services center in Kyiv, a Ukrainian citizen born in Novocherkassk, Russia, created a Facebook page …
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Svetlana Fedorets: Treason charges for a phone call with a friend
by Editorby EditorOn July 6, 2023, 44-year-old Svetlana Fedorets, a judge from the Zvenigorodka District Court in the Cherkasy region, was arrested. Fedorets, originally from Melitopol in the Zaporizhzhia region (currently under …
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Guryakov, Usachev, Polekhova: employees of the Kherson pre-trial detention center are being tried for not abandoning prisoners
by Editorby EditorFollowing the withdrawal of Russian troops from the right bank of the Kherson Oblast, the SBU launched so-called stabilization measures. These resulted in a large number of searches and arrests, …
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Yuri Chernoshov: 15-Year Prison Sentence for 82-Year-Old Afghanistan Veteran
by Editorby EditorIn early January 2024, a court in Zhytomyr sentenced 82-year-old Afghan war veteran and writer Yuriy Chernyoshov to 15 years imprisonment with confiscation of property. The investigation claims he engaged …
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Natalia Shablenko: 11 years in prison for working at the post office
by Editorby EditorNatalia Shablenko worked as a postal worker at the 9th branch of Ukrposhta in Izium, Kharkiv Oblast. In early June 2022, when Russian forces entered Izium and all Ukrainian state …