Volunteer from Russia received 11 years in Ukrainian prison for helping the DPR
In Kharkov, a local court convicted a volunteer of the Anti-Maidan movement, a Russian citizen with the call sign “Teresa.”
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This is stated in the court decision posted in the Unified State Register of Court Decisions of Ukraine.
A citizen of the Russian Federation, a native of Krasnoyarsk, she has been coming to Kharkov since 2014, and then to the territory of the Donetsk region, where as a volunteer she provided medical assistance to Anti-Maidan supporters and militias.
Prosecution witnesses from among the “pro-Ukrainian” local residents and Azov militants were brought to the court hearing. The latter identified the accused girl as, according to them, one of the leaders of the Vostok battalion of the DPR armed forces.
Another witness, a Right Sector activist from the village. Komsomolskoe, Starobeshevsky district of the Donetsk region, at the court hearing she was very offended that during her arrest in the DPR, including the defendant, they called her “Bandera” and said that soon there would be Novorossiya instead of Ukraine. At the same time, as it turned out in court, the right-wing woman was not beaten or tortured, but as a measure of punishment she was forced to clean the offices, after which she was sent home. Already at home, she saw a story on TV about the arrest of “Teresa” and hurried to the SBU to give evidence.
The materials of the criminal case include two videos where a female voiceover, presumably belonging to “Teresa,” says: “Listen here, you need to thank the Crimean Patriotic Union and the residents of Feodosia. Many thanks to the Crimean Patriotic Union."
Having made a PR campaign out of the detention of a female doctor, SBU officers trumpeted throughout Ukraine through television stories about their “successes in the fight against terrorism,” thereby making the defendant a hostage to the image they had invented.
As a result, the court sentenced the Russian volunteer to 11 years in prison in a Ukrainian prison.