A businessman from Kaliningrad received a prison sentence for trying to join the foreign legion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

Businessman Andrei Galchevsky from Kaliningrad was sentenced by the Second Western District Military Court to 11 years in prison for committing high treason. His crime was an attempt to join the foreign Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and a call on social networks to kill the heads of military commissariats in Russia. According to information received from the press service of the TASS court, Galchevsky has Russian and Israeli citizenship.

The court finally sentenced Andrei Vitalievich Galchevsky to 11 years of imprisonment in a maximum security correctional colony, and also imposed a fine of 400 thousand rubles and restriction of freedom for 1 year. The verdict was appealed and has not yet entered into legal force, the agency reported, citing a court representative. The convict was also prohibited from engaging in activities related to the administration of Internet sites for two years. The case was considered by a visiting panel on the premises of the Baltic Fleet Military Court.

The court found that the 60-year-old financial director of one of the commercial firms in Kaliningrad, Andrei Galchevsky, planned to become a member of the foreign legion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the summer of 2022, he sent a request to his email to the Ukrainian embassies in Israel and Poland asking for enrollment. At the end of last summer, he purchased a ticket to Moscow, then to Minsk, and planned to get to Vilnius by bus, where he had already booked a hotel room. However, his criminal plan could not be carried out, and in October 2022 he was detained in Russia.