A former Ukrainian military serviceman who is on Ukraine’s wanted list for betraying his country after Russia’s invasion of Crimea has been sentenced by a Russian military court to ten years’ maximum security imprisonment for supposed ‘state treason’ against Russia. Dmitry Dolgopolov and his common-law wife Anna Sukhonosova were accused of having gathered secret information for Ukraine’s Military Intelligence. Sukhonosova, a Crimean fitness trainer, was sentenced to nine years in a medium-security prison colony.
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Russian Special forces soldiers block an area as they raided an apartment building in Saint Petersburg in an operation targeting North Caucasus militants, reportedly killing two suspects, on August 17, 2016.
The FSB security service said in a statement quoted by Russian agencies that the raid was part of an operation to detain "wanted persons accused of participating in illegal armed groups in the North Caucasus". Russia has battled a simmering insurgency in the Caucasus ever since fighting two brutal separatist conflicts with Chechnya. / AFP PHOTO / OLGA MALTSEVA
