Ukrainian sentenced to 22 years in Russia

A Russian court has sentenced a 26-year-old Ukrainian man to 22 years in a maximum-security penal colony. The charges stem from an alleged plot to assassinate the head of a Russian-run prison in the occupied Ukrainian city of Kherson. The defendant, a former employee of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), was reportedly arrested in 2022 and accused of planning the attack on behalf of Ukrainian intelligence. The sentencing is part of a pattern of Russian judicial actions against Ukrainians in occupied territories.