This is reported in the press group of the UAS in the Mykolayiv region.

The report says that criminals are convicted for supporting the terrorist "Novorossia" and propaganda for the so-called "Nikolaev People's Republic".

It is noted that the court sentenced two organizers of the group (one of them is a former Interior Ministry official) to five years in prison, and three more members of the group received the same sentences with probation terms.

In addition, during searches by terrorists' accomplices, intelligence officers seized improvised explosive devices, grenades, a submachine gun MR-40, a significant number of cartridges, printed anti-state products, special literature for sabotage, and a list of pro-Ukrainian activists of the region.

Earlier, URA-Inform reported that the police detained for bribing an official Khmelnytsky regional council.