Ukraine said on Tuesday it had jailed two men for 10 and 12 years each for passing sensitive information about military targets to Russia to help the invasion.
Kiev has launched an intensive crackdown on thousands of Ukrainian officials and officials in the east and south, who it says welcomed and cooperated with Russia after the February 2022 invasion.
The men, residents of the eastern cities of Khasiv Yar and Kramatorsk, were sentenced to 10 and 12 years in prison respectively, the Donetsk region prosecutor's office said.
The Chasiv Yar resident allegedly “marked the location of checkpoints, trenches, dugouts and concrete structures” in eastern Ukraine between March and April 2022, the report said.
He then passed that information on to an unnamed resident of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk using a messenger application, the report said.
The Kramatorsk resident “marked on Google Maps the coordinates of the locations of the Ukrainian army in his city” and sent it to a Russian officer, it added.
According to the United Nations, Ukraine has opened more than 6,600 criminal cases “against individuals for collaboration and other conflict-related crimes” since the start of the war last year.
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