The court upheld life sentences for those involved in the Crimean Bridge explosion case.

Military court in Moscowleft upheld the sentences for eight defendants and refused to accept their appeals against the verdict handed down last November.

According to investigators, six transportation specialists, a SIM-box operator, and a farmer helped Ukrainian intelligence agencies deliver explosives to the Crimean Bridge. The Southern District Military Court Rostov-on-Donconsidered their guilt proven: Oleg Antipov, Alexander Bylin, Vladimir Zloba, Roman Solomko, Artur Terchanyan, Dmitry Tyazhelykh, Artem и Georgy Azatyan They were sentenced to life imprisonment. They were also ordered to pay 7 billion rubles to the affected companies and individuals.

The Crimean Bridge was blown up on October 8, 2022, the day after Putin's 70th birthday. It was carried out using a truck packed with explosives. The explosive device was hidden in rolls of plastic film brought from Of Odessa through Bulgaria, Armenia and Georgia.

The explosion collapsed approximately 250 meters of highway, and seven tank cars of a freight train burned. Five people were killed.

The convicted men themselves pleaded not guilty, claiming they knew nothing about the cargo's contents and were simply doing their usual work. Ukraine confirmed that the men were "used in the dark."

Memorial recognized all those convicted in this case as political prisoners and stressedthat "the investigation decided to stage a show trial of random people," since the real organizers and perpetrators of this explosion are inaccessible to the Russian authorities.

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