12 minutes agoRussia sentences a Romanian to 15 years in prison, charges him with spying
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(an hour ago)A Romanian man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in a Russian maximum security criminal colony after being convicted of spying on Ukraine, helping Kiev identify the location of sensitive air defence systems, the security service said Friday. Russian FSB.
The service said the man, David-Adrian Carcho, had shared the air defence location in Sochi, southern Russia, with a Ukrainian intelligence agency in August 2024.
In exchange for helping to get information of interest for the enemy, the Ukrainian agent promised the Romanian nation help to leave Russia safely and join a Ukrainian armed group that is banned on Russian territory to participate in hostility against our country”, the FSB said in a statement. The FSB published a video of Kercho's arrest in what looked like a park showing how he was forced to land by two agents, reports ReutersPeriscope broadcast.
Reuters could not determine how Kercho had accepted the charge, but the FSB said he had admitted the blame.
Dressed in sports tutas, Kercho, who FSB said was born in 2002, appeared listening to his verdict in a courtroom glass cage in Russia's southern Krasnodar region.
