The occupiers have accused a woman from Melitopol of “espionage” and jailed her for 13 years.
This is reported by the Centre of Journalistic Investigations.
44-year-old Yulia Koveshnikova was kidnapped by the occupiers in April 2023 in Melitopol. As her daughter Anastasia told CJI, on 8 April, her mother left the house to replenish the account, and after that no one saw her.
“We contacted mum every day. And the last thing she wrote was that she was going out for shopping and recharge. After that, the contact with her disappeared,” – Anastasia said.
For more than seven months the woman’s fate was unknown. Then her daughter received a call from relatives of the Ukrainians who were held together with Yulia and informed that her mum was accused of espionage and was being held in Mariupol in the pre-trial detention centre.
According to the FSB version, from June 2022 to January 2023, Koveshnikova collected information on the location of Russian security forces, equipment and weapons. She allegedly passed the collected data to her partner, who served in the AFU.
The woman was sentenced to 13 years in prison for “espionage”.