A Ukrainian court today sentenced a woman to 14 years in prison on charges of “high treason” for writing a letter to Russia’s UN representative justifying the Russian invasion. “The resident of Kiev who wrote a letter to the Russian ambassador to the UN expressing her support for the (Russia’s special operation) was sentenced to 14 years in prison for high treason,” the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office said via Telegram. According to this source, Vasily Nebenzia, the permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, referred to this letter in a speech on February 28, 2022, to justify the full-scale invasion that had begun four days earlier. In another statement, the Kyiv prosecutor’s office explained that, prompted by Russian intelligence services, the accused “wrote that the Ukrainian people supported the so-called special operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, that the looting, murders and rapes had start in Ukraine and […]
Source: News Beast
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