{"id":1328491,"date":"2025-12-03T20:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/justified-russias-armed-aggression-azarov-sentenced-in-absentia-to-15-years-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T20:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T18:18:06","slug":"justified-russias-armed-aggression-azarov-sentenced-in-absentia-to-15-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/justified-russias-armed-aggression-azarov-sentenced-in-absentia-to-15-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Justified Russia&#8217;s armed aggression: Azarov sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The court found former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov guilty of high treason in absentia, sentencing him to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The SBU <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/SBUkr\/16358\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reported<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The investigation established that the former employee, hiding abroad, actively collaborated with the Russian side for subversive activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, he regularly spreads anti-Ukrainian narratives \u2014 justifying Russian aggression and temporary occupation, as well as spreading fakes about the socio-political situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For his information operations, Azarov uses his own resources \u2014 Telegram, YouTube channels, and personal pages on social networks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The resource administrator was his assistant, a former official from one of Kyiv&#8217;s district administrations. She prepared provocative publications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;She also remotely negotiated with representatives of the Russian media about the time and topic of Azarov&#8217;s participation in live broadcasts or recording comments. Before sending him &#8220;theses&#8221; for speeches and publishing posts, the defendant coordinated the materials with a former colleague in a state institution who had left for Moscow and works for Azarov,&#8221; the report says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, based on the evidence of the Security Service, the court found him guilty under four articles of the Criminal Code:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">treason committed under martial law;<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">actions aimed at forcibly changing or overthrowing the constitutional order or at seizing state power, committed by prior conspiracy;<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine;<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">justification, recognition as legitimate, denial of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, glorification of its participants.<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among other things, the court also sentenced one of his assistants in absentia to 10 years in prison with confiscation of property.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Previously, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/dopomahav-okupantam-vesty-viynu-proty-ukrainy-sbu-povidomyla-pro-pidozru-meru-moskvy\/\">the Security Service of Ukraine collected evidence of the crimes of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin<\/a> and informed him in absentia of the suspicion.<\/p>\n<p> We will remind you that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/sbu-zaochno-povidomyla-pro-pidozru-rosiyskomu-spivaku-hryhoriiu-lepsu\/\">the Security Service reported in absentia the suspicion of Grigory Leps<\/a> , who promised the Russians a \u201cfee\u201d for each destroyed tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The court found former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov guilty of high treason in absentia, sentencing him to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property. The SBU reported this . The investigation established that the former employee, hiding abroad, actively collaborated with the Russian side for subversive activities. In particular, he regularly spreads anti-Ukrainian narratives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1328494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1328491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1328494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}