Russian Occupation Authorities Sentence Ukrainian Workers to Long-Term Imprisonment on Fake Charges
In the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian occupiers continue to conduct political repression against the local population by sentencing Ukrainians on fabricated charges.
Recently, in the city of Energodar, a guilty verdict was pronounced against Ruslan Lavryk, a 55-year-old radio and television engineer working at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
Official reports accuse him of allegedly transmitting information to Ukrainian special services and funding the Ukrainian Armed Forces, charges that are entirely fabricated.
He was sentenced to 16 years in a strict regime penal colony.
Energodar mayor, Dmytro Orlov, stated that Lavryk endured prolonged torture and is now suffering from heart problems, requiring urgent hospitalization.
Many of the verdicts issued on temporarily occupied territories are considered wholly illegitimate and lack any legal validity under Ukrainian law, emphasized Orlov.
He also highlighted that Russian courts on these territories carry out political repression, creating chaos and fear among the local population.
Furthermore, in Crimea, political prisoner Khalilov, who suffers from cancer, remains imprisoned.
Meanwhile, the Basmanny Court in Moscow sentenced Ukrainian journalist Yanina Sokolova to eight years in prison in absentia for allegedly publishing statements that foster a contemptuous and hostile attitude towards Russians.
Additionally, in Moscow, Ukrainian MP Oleksii Honcharenko was sentenced in absentia to ten years of imprisonment, with a three-year imprisonment and seven years in a penal colony, and was stripped of the right to administer websites.