Russian War Tank Factory Employees Imprisoned 16 Years For Leaking Military Secrets To Ukraine

JAKARTA - An engineer at the factory who made tanks for Russia's war in Ukraine was jailed for 16 years after being found guilty of treason by the state by leaking military secrets to Kyiv.

This verdict was knocked by the panel of judges for several weeks after his wife received a similar sentence.

As reported by Reuters on Tuesday, November 5, a court in the Sverdlovsk region said Danil Mukhamethov, who works at the Uralvagonzavod tank factory, partially admitted his guilt after allegedly providing military technical information that was not determined to Ukrainian intelligence agencies.

The court released a photo of Mukhamethov (32) in a glass room as the judge read out his sentence.

His wife, Viktoria, who worked in the same tank factory, Russia's largest, was sentenced to 12.5 years in the last month after being found guilty of selling Ukrainian officials a technical blueprint for 100,000 rubles or more than 1.000 US dollars.

She and her husband were arrested in March 2023 by the FSB security service, which published the video of the arrest. The video shows she was asked what their plans were with the money, and she replied: Just for life.

Located in the city of Nizhny Tagil about 1,400 km east of Moscow, the Uralvagonzavod plant has been approved by the West.

The factory, run by a state conglomerate controlled by one of President Vladimir Putin's allies, publicly said it was producing T-90M combat tanks and modernizing the T-72B3M tank.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the ship played an important role in supplying tanks for Moscow's war in Ukraine, something authorities refer to as a special military operation.