A married couple of Russian agents have been sentenced to 15 years in prison for guiding a Russian missile at a hospital in Kherson, the SBU reports.
It has been documented that in early 2023, it was at their direction that the occupiers shelled a local hospital.
In January of the same year, SBU officers detained both enemy fire adjusters.
Based on the SBU materials, the court sentenced both offenders to 15 years in prison.
The investigation established that the convicts are a husband and wife from Kherson, who lived in a civil marriage. In early January 2023, they came to the attention of the aggressor when they responded to an FSB "offer" in one of the Russian telegram channels.
After remote recruitment, the Russian secret service set a task for its agents: to collect information on the location of the Defence Forces units. The aggressor was also interested in possible places of inpatient treatment of wounded Ukrainian soldiers.
The offenders used a messenger to transmit intelligence and received money on their bank cards.
Based on the SBU investigation, the court found the male agent guilty under Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (high treason committed under martial law) and his wife guilty under Part 5 of Article 27, Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (aiding and abetting in high treason under martial law).
In Zaporizhzhya, a former communist MP was recently sentenced to 15 years in prison for correcting enemy missile strikes on the city. It was his coordinates that were used by the rashists to carry out a series of air strikes on the city in April-May 2022.