Source An already convicted Sevastopol resident was recognized as a Ukrainian spy. The sentence handed down by the Southern District Military Court to a resident of Sevastopol, Dmitry Shtyblikov, who was accused of treason, came into force. The court agreed with the version of the investigation that the former journalist and employee of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation was a colonel in illegal intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, who collected and transmitted secret information. As a result, an illegal immigrant who had already served time for preparing acts of sabotage in Crimea was sentenced to 20 years in a strict regime colony.
A resident of Sevastopol, a former employee of one of the military units of the Black Sea Fleet, Dmitry Shtyblikov, as well as his accomplices Alexei Bessarabov and Vladimir Dudko, were detained in the fall of 2016. Then they were accused of creating a sabotage group designed to carry out attacks on civilian and military infrastructure in Crimea. The group was uncovered after a series of unsuccessful attempts by Ukrainian saboteurs to penetrate the peninsula near Armyansk, as a result of which FSB Lieutenant Colonel Roman Kamenev and paratrooper Semyon Sychev were killed during the ensuing skirmishes, while Yevgeny Panov and Andrey Zakhtey, officers of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, were detained. Through them, law enforcement officers managed to get on the trail of “sleeping” spies in Sevastopol. The latter were charged under Art. 30 and Art. 281 (attempted sabotage), as well as Art. 208 (participation in an illegal armed formation) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
In particular, according to the investigation, Shtyblikov and his assistants were going to blow up the tower of a radio and television transmitting center, a mobile gas turbine power plant, a fuel and lubricants warehouse and the mast of the radio center of the Black Sea Fleet RF.
Shtyblikov initially denied everything, but later admitted his guilt and said that he was a colonel in illegal intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
He concluded a pre-trial agreement with the investigation and said that their activities were supervised by Sergei Shvidenko. The latter was detained in 2021 and sentenced to six and a half years. According to his testimony, the main leader of sabotage activities in Crimea is the head of the operational department “South” of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Colonel Mykola Spodar.
In the fall of 2017, the Sevastopol City Court sentenced Shtyblikov to five years in a strict regime colony for preparing a sabotage. Alexei Bessarabov and Vladimir Dudko were sent to a colony for 14 years.
Further, Shtyblikov had to answer for high treason in the form of espionage (Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to the FSB Public Relations Center, the investigation managed to prove that Shtyblikov intentionally stayed in Crimea in 2014 and received Russian citizenship, acting on instructions from Ukrainian intelligence. Fleet, the security officers note, Shtyblikov collected and transferred to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine information constituting a state secret about the activities of local military units. . As a result, Dmitry Shtyblikov was found guilty, he was sentenced to nineteen and a half years in a strict regime colony with restriction of freedom for one year and a fine of 200 thousand rubles. The second defendant, Alexander Obloga (data about him are kept secret), was sentenced to thirteen years in a strict regime colony, in addition, the court deprived him of the military rank of “senior lieutenant.”
A source told Kommersant in law enforcement, convicted Shtyblikov and his defense filed appeals against the verdict. However, they were rejected. The verdict has now entered into force.
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