The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced in absentia to 18 and 24 years in prison Russian Elena Popova and Ukrainian Maria Savosta, who are accused of the murder of Russian missile officer Konstantin Nagaiko. 

As reported  by Censor.NET  with reference to the publication Mediazon.

A New Year’s gift exploded

The operative part of the verdict, to which the agency refers, states that 29-year-old Nagayko was killed in the city of Shuya, Ivanovo region, on December 30, 2024. According to the investigation, Savosta sent him a package with a cosmetic set as a New Year’s gift. Popova handed over the package to Nagayko through other people, and it ended up on the officer’s desk. When the serviceman opened the gift, an explosion occurred. Law enforcement officers determined that the package contained a homemade bomb.

Sentences for women

The court sentenced Savosta to 18 years in a penal colony, and Popova to 24 years in prison, a year of restricted liberty, and a fine of 700,000 rubles. The defendants were also fined 70,000 rubles at the request of the military unit where the explosion occurred.

Both women were found guilty of committing a terrorist act, the convicted women were put on the international wanted list and arrested in absentia.

As a reminder, on January 4, 2025, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s GUR reported that the occupier involved in the deaths of 59 civilians in the village of Groza was blown up in Russia. A month later, the battery commander of the 112th Missile Brigade Division of the Russian Armed Forces (military unit 03333), Captain Konstantin Nagayko, died in hospital.

On January 3, 2025, Nagaiko received multiple injuries as a result of an explosion in the settlement of Shuya, Ivanovo Oblast, where he was serving in the military. Craniotomy and other Russian surgery did not help the war criminal.

Missile strike on Groz in Kharkiv region

As a reminder, on October 5, 2023, Russian occupiers fired an Iskander missile at the village of Groza, Kupyansky district, Kharkiv region. Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said that a memorial service for a Ukrainian serviceman who died at the front was being held in a village cafe during the shelling. 59 people died as a result of the Russian strike on a cafe in the village of Groza, Kharkiv region . All the dead have been identified.

The security service “hot on the trail” has identified the two traitors who orchestrated the Russian missile strike on a cafe in the village of Groza in the Kharkiv region on October 5.

The attackers turned out to be two local residents – 30-year-old Volodymyr Mamon and his younger brother, 23-year-old Dmytro Mamon, who sided with the racists during the occupation of the region.

Author:  Lesya Karpenko Джерело: https://censor.net/ua/n3560575

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