According to the FSB, the man was detained in the city of Aksai at the end of 2020.

According to the intelligence service, he purposefully collected secret data about the Russian army on the instructions of Ukrainian intelligence. 

“In accordance with the verdict of the court, the defendant was found guilty and he was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 13 years to be served in a strict regime penal colony with the deprivation of the military rank of “senior lieutenant,” the court said.

Earlier, the Southern District Military Court passed a verdict against Dmitry Shtyblikov, a resident of Sevastopol, accused of treason, he was sentenced to 19.5 years in prison.