The City Court of St. Petersburg sentenced to 11 years in a maximum security colony of 29-year-old resident Kharkov Ivan Zabavsky under an article on espionage. During the Russian occupation of Tavolzhanka, he went to the village to look for his mother Marina, then he was detained by the Russians, Mediazona reports him.

It is noted that the mother of the Kharkiv resident remained in the Tavolzhanka after the start of a full -scale invasion. When the Russians began to approach the village, she left for Russia. Unable to find his mother, Ivan went to Tavolzhanka to look for her as a truck driver with a humanitarian cargo, after which he disappeared, and the village was occupied by Russians. The neighbors told Marina Zabavskaya that they saw how her son was taken away by the military of the Russian Federation.

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The Russian Ministry of Defense answered her only in May 2023, saying that his son was detained " The case of Zabavsky began to be considered only in the summer of 2024 in closed mode, the details of the prosecution are unknown. The prosecution asked the Ukrainian to sentenced to 13 years in prison.

Earlier, the Russians sentenced the 72-year-old US citizen Stephen Gabbard to six years and 10 months in prison for allegedly mercenaries on the side of Ukraine. The American pleaded guilt, but his family doubts that he participated in hostilities.