Russian Student Jailed 9 Years for Secession Calls, Promoting Ukrainian Army

A St. Petersburg military court on Wednesday sentenced a university student to nine years in prison for making public calls to join the Ukrainian army and for his native republic of Karelia to secede from Russia. Andrei Vasyurenko, 19, was detained in March on charges of “planning to commit high treason by defecting to the enemy’s side,” the RBC news outlet reported at the time, noting that his attempts were unsuccessful.