A woman has become the youngest to be arrested after being accused of treason against the Russian state following a clampdown by Vladimir Putin as the war in Ukraine goes on.
Tamara Parshina is just 23-years-old and she was seen being marched through the streets by armed male FSB officers.
She works as an IT specialist and is accused of sending her personal money to Ukraine for the armed forces to use as they fight off the Russian invasion.
Ms Parshina was then flown eight hours from her hometown to be held in Moscow’s top security Lerfortovo detention jail.
The Putin regime detained the woman in March, but her name has only emerged now.
She faces up to 20 years in jail if convicted, and all such prosecutions have so far ended in guilty verdicts after secret trials in Russia.
The FSB say she is “involved in committing high treason in the form of providing financial assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in activities directed against the security of the Russian Federation”.
She is accused by the FSB of transferring her own personal money to the Ukrainian armed forces motivated by “political hatred and enmity” against Putin’s regime.
The cash was allegedly for “weapons, ammunition and uniforms”.
Her friends deny that she paid money to the armed forces of Ukraine and say she transferred small funds to an organisation helping people in the country after Putin launched his war.
Earlier this month, Russia arrested a 25-year-old woman from Ukraine, accusing her of espionage.
Lenie Umerova is also held in notorious Lefortovo jail in Moscow on a charge that could also see her jailed for 20 years.
She had visited Russia from Ukraine to see her cancer-stricken father.
Among those held at Lefortovo detention jail is Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, 31, a US citizen, who was arrested on March 29 on similar charges of espionage for which he faces up to 20 years in prison.
Gershkovich is the first Moscow Correspondent from the US to be detained by Russia on spying charges since the Cold War.
His family and the newspaper vehemently deny the claim that he was seeking to obtain classified information.
