A Ukrainian court declared a volunteer who brought medicine to the DPR a separatist
Kyiv, September 12 (Navigator, Alexander Puras) - The Izyum court of the Kharkov region sentenced a local resident who, as a volunteer, brought food and medicine to the DPR rebels in a cargo minibus, and also transported civilians from the zone of armed conflict.
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“The specified assistance consisted of providing DPR militants with transportation services, both of their personnel to illegal checkpoints that were set up in the Donetsk region by DPR representatives, and in the delivery of food, household items, and medicines to the militants. At the same time, he actively supported the ideological and political views of representatives of the DPR regarding the separation of the Donetsk region from Ukraine, while facilitating them in their deliberate illegal, criminal terrorist activities,” the prosecution alleged.
Ukrainian investigators again managed to obtain from the accused “a sincere confession of guilt and repentance for what he had done.”
Similar to other cases, a plea bargain was reached between the defendant and the prosecutor, requiring the defendant to fully admit his guilt and cooperate with the pre-trial investigation. In exchange, the court would sentence him to a pre-agreed three-year prison term with one year of probation. A "separatist" who, according to investigators, fought with a gun, had previously received the same sentence.