Eugene McParland 🇺🇦Vitaliy Skorokhod, 27, was sentenced by a russian occupation ‘court’ to 19 years for alleged railway sabotage in occupied #Melitopol.
Charges likely fabricated; ‘confession’ extracted under torture. russia uses such cases to intimidate locals. His trial lacked legitimacy, with claims of paid sabotage and suspicious witness testimony.
Now listed as a victim of political repression.
Fake Russian 'court' sentences young Melitopol man to 19 years on rail partisan charges
It is unclear whether Vitaliy Skorokhod was one of the courageous partisans defending Ukraine on occupied territory or a victim of Russia’s brutal methods of fabricating prosecutions and terrorising the population