Melitopol native sentenced to 27 years in Russian jail for trying to poison navy graduates

Ukrainian nationwide Yehor Semenov has been sentenced to 27 years in jail for his involvement within the "poisoning" of graduates from the Armavir Greater Army Aviation College. The ruling has been handed down by the Southern District Army Court docket in Russia.

Supply: Russia's Southern District Army Court docket on Telegram

Quote: "The defendant has been discovered responsible and sentenced to 27 years' imprisonment in a strict regime penal colony with the primary 5 years to be served in jail."

Particulars: Russian investigators claimed that Semenov had supposed to cooperate with Ukrainian safety providers as early as February 2023. He allegedly recorded a video message in Ukrainian expressing his intent to collaborate with Ukraine's Safety Service and Armed Forces, and was later tasked with organising the poisoning of Russian navy personnel.

The goal was graduates of the Armavir Air Defence College, who had been planning a banquet in October 2023. In keeping with the prosecution, Semenov was tasked with delivering alcoholic drinks and a cake laced with a toxic substance to the occasion. He allegedly studied the restaurant’s format, noting the positions of home windows, tables and CCTV cameras. He additionally ordered the cake and bought the poisonous substances.

Semenov supposedly delivered the alcohol and cake to the restaurant by courier on 20 October. The Russian graduates discovered the alcohol and cake suspicious and didn’t devour them.

The defendant was detained on 21 October 2023. The court docket discovered him responsible underneath fees of terrorism and excessive treason (Article 205.3(a) and Article 275 of the Legal Code of the Russian Federation).

Background: In October 2023, it was reported that Yehor Semenov, a local of the Ukrainian metropolis of Melitopol, had been detained for 15 days in Armavir, Russia's Krasnodar Krai, underneath an administrative cost of disorderly conduct. Russian Telegram channel Baza reported that Semenov had been apprehended in Stavropol whereas trying to fly to Moscow.

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