An engineer at a Russian tank manufacturer has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for high treason, after being found guilty of giving military information to Ukraine, a court said on Tuesday.
The regional court in Russia said Daniel Mukhametov, was working as an engineer at a region in Russia’s Urals when Russia’s FSB security services detained him and his wife Viktoria in 2023.
The court said Mukhametov and his wife, who also worked there, were accused of “giving Ukrainian special services military and technical information.
His wife, Viktoria Mukhametova, was sentenced in early October to 12.5 years in prison on the same charges, according to Russian news agencies.
The case is the latest Ukraine espionage case that Russia has opened since it sent troops to Ukraine in February 2022.
