Novorossiysk resident convicted in treason case
A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Novorossiysk resident Mikhail Komkov to 14 years in prison, finding him guilty of working for the Ukrainian special services.
Komkov was charged with treason and public justification of terrorism (Articles 275 and 205.2 of the Russian Criminal Code).
The charge of public justification of terrorism is related to a comment that a Novorossiysk resident left on a social network in March 2024. The publication concerned the Russian Volunteer Corps organization, which is recognized as terrorist and banned in Russia, and Komkov's comment, as the court found, "justified its activities."
The treason charge relates to June 2024, when Komkov, as claimed by the investigation and the prosecutor's office, "decided to support the armed forces and special services of Ukraine," after which he contacted a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and received from him the task of collecting information about the military units stationed in Novorossiysk.
As the court established, Komkov filmed the territory of the military units with his mobile phone camera, "determined the location of the ships of the Border Directorate of the FSB of Russia for the Krasnodar Territory, through visual observation collected information about the location of the naval equipment of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy in the waters of Novorossiysk," and then sent the pictures to a representative of the Ukrainian special services, according to a message on the court's official Telegram channel.
The court sentenced Mikhail Komkov to 14 years in a maximum security penal colony. The court's press service did not specify whether he pleaded guilty during the trial.
Caucasian Knot has not yet received any comments from the accused or his lawyer regarding plans to appeal the verdict.
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