The Russian intelligence agency Federal Security Service (FSB) arrested two individuals who are suspected of supporting Ukrainian entities to carry out cyberattacks to disrupt Russian critical infrastructure.
The two men are facing high treason charges and could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison.
The authorities did not disclose the names of the suspects who were arrested in Tomsk and Kuzbass.
One of the suspects is a student at Tomsk University, he studied at the Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics and “expressed his commitment to the Ukrainian side.”
