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A 66-year-old woman from the Zaporizhzhia region has been sentenced to 14 years in a penal colony for purchasing Ukrainian war bonds, following<\/a> a trial in a Russian-occupied court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The defendant, identified by the occupation-era \u2018Zaporizhzhia Regional Court\u2019 only as \u2018B.\u2019, is a resident of the village of Liubymivka. Although the authorities withheld her full name, the details align with the case of Larysa Bieliaieva, a general practitioner born in 1960 whose hearing was listed<\/a> for 22 April. In a move suggesting a lack of specific evidence, the court\u2019s social media announcement used<\/a> video footage previously circulated during the sentencing of another woman, Svitlana Loi, from Tokmak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prosecution\u2019s case rested on the allegation that, between October 2023 and June 2024, the pensioner used the Ukrainian government\u2019s \u2018Diia\u2019 application to purchase 102 military bonds. These transactions, totalling 270,080 roubles, were framed as providing financial assistance to the Ukrainian armed forces. Because Larysa Bieliaieva holds Russian citizenship, the occupation authorities brought the charges under the classification of high treason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Larysa Bieliaieva\u2019s ordeal began in the summer of 2025. While media reports first noted her detention in August, members of an online group dedicated to supporting political prisoners had already identified her as being held in a Donetsk pre-trial detention centre as early as July. By late January, she had been transferred to Crimea to face trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A native of Vynohradivka in the Mykhailivka district, Larysa Bieliaieva is a 1986 graduate of the Crimean State Medical University. Before her arrest, she served her community as a physician at the Mykhailivka Centre for Medical and Social Assistance, a career of public service now eclipsed by a decade and a half behind bars in a Russian penal colony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-58031","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","regions-zaporizhzhia-oblast","news-type-nashi-novosti-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nUkrainian pensioner jailed for 14 years for buying war bonds - Political prisoners support. 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