OSCE officials in Donbas convicted of espionage for the CIA
The Supreme Court of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) convicted two employees of the mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) for treason - espionage for the benefit of a foreign country.
In two separate cases, a translator from the mission, Maxim Petrov, and another associate, Dmytro Shabanov, were found guilty of treason. Each was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
Shabanov, according to the indictment, also cooperated with a foreign intelligence service. The cases were heard in closed court and the exact circumstances of the betrayal remain unknown.
The head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, banned the OSCE mission in the separatist republic back in April. He explained that during the conflict between the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics in Donbass and Ukraine, which began in 2014, the mission never contributed to the peace process, did not register numerous violations by Kyiv and became known as the "blind observers'.
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