The Moscow City Court sentenced the former head of the Ukrainian defense plant Znamya, Yuri Soloshenko, to six years in prison on charges of espionage, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports.
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According to the investigation, the publication notes, Soloshenko tried to smuggle secret components for the S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems (SAM).
“Soloshenko Yu.D. was detained in August 2014 in Moscow by FSB officers while attempting to illegally acquire secret components for the S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems, the newspaper quotes an explanation from the Public Relations Center of the FSB of Russia. “At the same time, he acted on behalf of the state-owned enterprise Generator Plant and the Sky of Ukraine corporation, and the products planned for purchase were intended to restore Ukraine’s air defense systems.”
At the same time, the FSB emphasized that the case with Soloshenko is far from isolated.
“This is not the first time that security authorities have suppressed attempts by individual Ukrainian citizens to purchase military products from Russia and smuggle them out,” the Russian intelligence service reports. “So, in December 2014, Ukrainian citizen Denis Danchenko was expelled from the Russian Federation, who arrived in Moscow for the purpose of purchasing, bypassing the established procedure, secret klystrons and magnetrons for the S-300 and Buk-M1 air defense systems.”