Anna Yeltsova, a 23-year-old student abducted in Kherson Region, was sentenced to 10 years in a medium-security prison for alleged ‘espionage’.
Occupant’s ‘Kherson Regional Court’ delivered a verdict under Article 276 of the Russian Criminal Code (espionage).
The occupiers reported that the case was considered by the Crimean FSS: ‘In November 2022, Yeltsova, being on the territory of Henichesk District, Kherson Region, on the instructions of a representative of the Ukrainian intelligence agencies, voluntarily collected information on the movement and location of military equipment and personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation’.
As previously reported by the CHRG, Anna Yeltsova, a 23-year-old student of Kherson State University, was abducted from her grandmother’s house in the village of Ahaimany on 29 November 2022. For two years, Anna was held incommunicado in the Simferopol pre-trial detention centre.
In October 2024, the FSS announced that a criminal case had been opened against her under Article 276 of the Russian Criminal Code (espionage). According to the FSS, the woman allegedly passed on information to the Ukrainian intelligence services about the location of Russian troops in Kherson Region. Hanna has been held in Simferopol Detention Centre No. 2 since at least August 2023.
