Russia adopts law on life imprisonment to fight Ukrainian underground - Ukrainian National Resistance Center 

This was reported by the National Resistance Center.

The document provides for punishment for "persuasion, recruitment or involvement of a person" in sabotage. Particularly, people will be held accountable for financing subversive activities, arming and training people for this.

The Criminal Code will also punish the so-called accomplices of sabotage, the creators of the "sabotage community" and those who have been trained "for the purpose of carrying out sabotage activities."

The National Resistance Center claims that such a law is another brick in the construction of a repressive machine in the occupied Ukrainian territories: "It should be noted that the Russian forces call any guerrilla resistance to the occupation sabotage. The law was adopted precisely to fight the population of the temporarily occupied territories because it allows anyone who is not loyal to the Russian soldiers to be accused of "assisting saboteurs."

Thus, the National Resistance Center called on people living in the temporarily occupied territories to leave the region until it is liberated by the Ukrainian Defense Forces.

• The Center also has information about the Ukrainians’ arrests by the Russian military. Particularly, the grounds for imprisonment may be Ukrainian applications, lack of Russian passports and false denunciations.