MOSCOW: Russian prosecutors have asked a Moscow court to convict a Ukrainian journalist of espionage and jail him for 14 years, his lawyer said Monday, in a move condemned by Kiev.
Journalist Roman Sushchenko, who has worked for Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform for over a decade, was detained in Moscow in 2016. Russia’s FSB security agency accused him of serving in Ukrainian military intelligence and gathering state secrets.
The case comes amid an uptick in violence in recent weeks in the conflict between Ukrainian troops and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine that broke out following Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine …read more
Source: theSun
