A court in occupied Sevastopol has sentenced a Ukrainian man for collaborating with Ukrainian Military Intelligence (HUR).
The man was arrested by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) before being able to complete his mission, the Russian Crimean Prosecutor’s Office claimed. It did not publish his name.
Russia accused the man of “help[ing] foreign intelligence,” specifically, “searching for caches of explosive devices in Sevastopol and attempting to move them to the specified locations,” according to Ukrinform.
The trial was held behind closed doors.
Crimea and other temporarily occupied regions of Ukraine have seen an increase in partisan activity in recent years, including targeted assassinations, arson, destruction of rail lines, and targeting for Ukrainian strikes.
The Ukrainian partisan movement “Atesh” regularly reports the locations of Russian military equipment and personnel targets for Ukraine’s Armed Forces.
Other partisan movements in occupied regions include “Popular Resistance of Ukraine” and “Berdyansk Partisan Army,” according to an Atlantic Council report from February.
Last week, Ukraine was able to strike several military bases on the peninsula.
On May 15, FSB officers arrested two residents of Crimea and charged them with high treason under Article 275 of the Russian Criminal Code, according to RFE/RL affiliate Krim.Reali.
Crimea has been under Russian occupation since March 2014.