A man accused of trying to kill pilots in the Russian army with poisoned wines and cakes is sentenced to 27 years in prison

A Russian military court convicted and sentenced a man to 27 years in prison on Tuesday for his attempt to kill two army pilots with alcohol and nail cakes at the graduation ceremony based on Ukrainian orders.

According to the Russian investigators, Yegor Semenov was recruited by the Ukrainian Secret Service and promised about $ 5,000 to send poisoned alcohol and cakes to the Graduate Military Pilot Party in Armavir, southern Russia.

Investigators said that Siminov, a 34 -year -old dual citizen, was born in Ukraine and only acquired Russian citizenship in 2022.

“The defendant was convicted and sentenced to 27 years imprisonment in the UN security colony,” the court said on Tuesday.

The poison plot eventually failed because the pilots became skeptical in the package and sent it to examine it, which revealed a fatal dose of medical medicine in cakes, whiskey bottles and coborn. A After a telegram It is claimed to show a picture of a drug cake.

The representatives of the prosecution requested the sentence of life imprisonment, which was charged with betraying the state and terrorism, and the ruling will appeal.

Russia was exposed to a large number of killings from its soldiers behind the front lines, including high -ranking generals, after its launch Ukraine attackThat entered its fourth year. Recently, Russia has accused Kiev of being behind the killing of the great Russian general Yarroslav Muscalik, who was Car Outside Moscow last week.

Ukraine usually does not comment on any secret operations inside Russia, but in some cases, Kiev claimed responsibility. These include August 2022 A car bombing for patriotism Daria Dogina An explosion in the Saint Petersburg Café in April 2023, which killed the prominent military correspondent Maxim FatinKnown as Flueen Tatarski.

In December 2023, Illia Kiva, a former Ukrainian legislator, who supported Moscow who fled to Russia, He was shot and killed Near Moscow. The Ukrainian military intelligence praised the death, warning that the other “traitors of Ukraine” would share the same fate.

Igor Kirilov, head of the Russian army’s chemical weapons unit, was He was killed from a cultivated bomb In Scirt, Moscow in December. Ukrainian security sources told CBS News that Ukraine’s security service (SBU) killed Kirillov in a special operation.

After Kirilov’s death, Putin made a rare recognition of failure by his strong security agencies, saying: “We should not allow such very serious mistakes.”