Supreme Court upholds life sentence for spotter of missile strike on cafe in Kramatorsk
The Supreme Court has upheld a life sentence for a spotter of a missile strike on a cafe in Kramatorsk, where 13 people were killed and 64 wounded, the Court reports.
"The Cassation Criminal Court within the Supreme Court left unchanged the decisions of courts of previous instances, by which the defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment for high treason (Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine)," the Supreme Court said in a report on its Telegram channel on Wednesday.
As established by the courts, on June 27, 2023, the defendant transferred information about the location of AFU servicemen in a cafe in Kramatorsk to a representative of a foreign organization – the "head of the intelligence department of the Command of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR)" – by recording and sending two video messages in the Telegram messenger showing the specified object.
On the same day, the Armed Forces of Russia carried out a missile strike on the premises of this cafe, as a result of which 13 people died and 64 were injured.
