Go to the media bankDmitry Shabanov, a former security assistant at the Mission's Stakhanov Forward Patrol Base, charged with high treason, in a courtroom in LuhanskLUGANSK, Sep 19 On Monday, the Supreme Court of the Luhansk People's Republic sentenced Dmitry Shabanov, security assistant at the Stakhanov Forward Patrol Base of the OSCE mission, to 13 years in prison for treason. provided for by Article 335 of the Criminal Code of the LPR, and sentence him to 13 years in prison,» the judge read out the verdict.
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In April of this year, the LPR and DPR announced that several OSCE SMM observers had been detained on the territory of the republic. At the same time, the Ministry of State Security of the LPR announced the discovery of documents confirming the facts of interaction between representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission and the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. Also, the first deputy representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, said that the OSCE SMM was spying in the interests of Kyiv. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that a number of OSCE SMM personnel in Donbass were, in fact, engaged in criminal activities, which damaged the organization's reputation. It is specified that the verdict can be appealed within 10 days.
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