In St. Petersburg, a foreigner named Zabavsky was arrested on espionage charges.

The Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent Ivan Zabavsky to a pre-trial detention center on a case of espionage (Article 276 of the Criminal Code), an appeal against the arrest will take place on August 1 in the St. Petersburg City Court, drew attention to the corresponding card. Mediazona

There are no details about this case. Foreigners are charged with espionage; trials under this article are held behind closed doors.

On July 27, the FSB reported that the court sentenced to 15 years in prison two foreigners accused of spying for the GUR, involvement in the death of Russian military personnel and the destruction of military equipment in Ukraine. The department did not specify in which city the trial took place.

In early July, FSB officers detained a Ukrainian citizen on the territory of the self-proclaimed LPR, suspected of transmitting data to the Ukrainian Armed Forces about the deployment of the Russian army and the People's Militia of the LPR (Article 276 of the Criminal Code).

At the end of June, the department also reported on the detention of Ukrainian citizen E. Ishchuk on the territory of the LPR - she is also accused of espionage; on June 30, the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow placed the woman in a pre-trial detention center. In June, detentions and arrests in cases of espionage were also reported in Bryansk and Nalchka .