A former staff member of an international monitoring mission in eastern Ukraine has been convicted of spying by a court in the Moscow-occupied Donetsk, according to the Russian prosecutor general’s office. The individual, who served as a security assistant for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's monitoring mission, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for allegedly gathering information about industrial facilities.
The information was collected in 2021, prior to the outbreak of Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine, the statement from the Russian office revealed. Some of the facilities that were reportedly surveyed came under attack during the conflict.
