In the Zaporizhzhia region, the occupiers sentenced priest Konstantyn Maksymov to 14 years in a strict regime colony for "espionage".
This was stated by the illegal "prosecutor's office" of Crimea, reports Pershyi Zaporizkyi.
The invaders claim that from April 2022 to February 2023, a man living in Tokmak allegedly "collected information on the coordinates of the deployment of Russian air defense equipment located in the city and district".
He allegedly "transferred the data to an employee of the Security Service of Ukraine via an Internet messenger".
According to the Center for Civil Liberties, on the morning of May 16, 2023, Konstantyn Maksymov of the UOC-MP
left the occupied Tokmak on a volunteer humanitarian mission through Crimea.
At 10:27 a.m., the man called his friends and told them that he had arrived at a checkpoint, probably in Chongar. There has been no contact with him since then. Probably, the clergyman was taken off the flight, detained by the Russian military, and then taken to a filtration camp in Dzhankoi.
It should be noted that after the beginning of the full-scale invasion, in the Zaporizhzhia region, the occupation authorities gradually banned the activities of all religious organizations not supporting the idea of the "Russian world". The invaders acted according to the same scenario: interviews and "interrogations," searches and seizures of churches, a ban on worship, and arrest and "deportation" of clergy refusing to cooperate.