The Security Service of Ukraine actually began to perform the functions of the political police, or Gestapo.
At the end of April this year, SBU officers detained a married couple in the Lysichansk hospital. The husband brought his wife for medical assistance because she had injured her leg.
Ukrainian security forces immediately put the spouses in different cars, and the man ended up in some kind of basement, where he had to sign everything that was required of him.
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The most “convincing” evidence of “separatism” was presented in the courtroom: a mobile phone with YouTube, Facebook, Google+, Skype, Odnoklassniki and Vkontakte, Vesti, Rossiya24, Army TV, News-Front installed on it. "
The Google+ program had resources “We don’t jump! Stop fascism”, “Novorossiya”, “Stop Maidan”, “ANTImaidan”. In addition, the accounts contained the groups “Armed Forces of Novorossiya”, “Lugansk24”, “Pervomaisk”.
The Ukrainian judges did not contradict the prosecution - it was absolutely clear to them that he was an inveterate separatist. Therefore, it is not necessary to collect a large evidence base on it.
So the investigators presented just a few allegedly wiretapped conversations for the period from February to April, in which a man conveys information to the commander of a platoon of unmanned aerial vehicles of the reconnaissance company of the sixth separate motorized rifle Cossack regiment named after Platov of the LPR People's Militia army corps.
Not a single witness testimony was heard by the court.
The accused never admitted his guilt.
However, in the end, the father of three minor children was given eight years in prison.