In Dnipropetrovska oblast, distributors of separatist newspaper sentenced to 5.5 years of prison

Dzerzhinskiy District court of Kryvyi Rih sentenced to five years and six months of prison the five criminals who, on assignment of the terrorist organization "DPR", were promoting printed materials with separatist content. The SBU website informs about this.

The criminal investigation was conducted by officers of Security Service of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovska oblast branch.

The crime was committed in June-July of 2014, when the separatist were disseminating the newspaper "Novorossia" in public places visited by many people.  The separatists were judged guilty in encroachment against the territorial integrity of Ukraine.