The Sevastopol City Court on April 4convicted two residents of Sevastopol, Volodymyr Dudka and Oleksiy Bessarabov, identified by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) as agents of Ukrainian special services, and sentenced them to 14 years in prison each.
“They have been given 14 years in prison each,” a court spokesperson told reporters.
On November 9, 2016, the FSB reported the detention of three suspected members of a sabotage and terrorist group of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Main Directorate of Intelligence for plotting acts of sabotage at Crimea’s military facilities and crucial infrastructure sites. They were identified as Dmytro Shtyblikov, Oleksiy Bessarabov, and Volodymyr Dudka.
According to the FSB, weapons, ammunition, communication equipment and maps of the possible targets were seized from these men.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry, for its part, denies that the three are its employees.
In November 2017, the Sevastopol City Court sentenced Shtyblikov, who made a deal with the investigators, to five years in prison and a fine of 200,000 rubles.
