A court in Russia's Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk said on December 21 that two individuals have been sentenced to prison terms of eight and seven years on charges of financing Ukraine's armed forces. Media reports identified one of them earlier as Tatyana Parshina, 24, who was arrested in March for sending 2,400 rubles ($27) to a Ukraine-linked fund. Another unidentified resident of Khabarovsk was handed a seven-year prison term on the same charge in a separate trial, the court said. The two sentences were the first ones handed to Russian citizens on the charge of financially supporting Ukraine's military. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Siberia.Realities, click here.
Two In Russia's Far East Sentenced To Prison For 'Financing' Ukraine's Armed Forces
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