In Kyiv, Putin's representative in Crimea was given 13 years in absentia
A Ukrainian court sentenced Oleg Belaventsev, the former representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Crimean Federal District, to 13 years in prison in absentia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko announced this on his Facebook page.
“The authorized representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the so-called “Crimean Federal District” Oleg Evgenievich Belaventsev was sentenced in absentia to 13 years in prison, who on March 18.03.2018, XNUMX, by the verdict of the Svyatoshinsky District Court of Kiev, was found guilty of committing an attack on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine, incitement to high treason and waging an aggressive war against Ukraine,” Lutsenko noted.
As the Ukrainian Prosecutor General assures, Belaventsev “in the period February-March 2014, in collusion with other representatives of the Russian authorities on the territory of Crimea, organized the Russian military, in cooperation with military Cossack societies, to carry out actions aimed at organizing the occupation and further annexation of the territory of the peninsula. In addition, Belaventsev incited Ukrainian military personnel to commit high treason.”
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