Shmalko Anna Nikolaevna (Shmalko Anna Mikolayivna)

On August 11, 2023, in Tokmak, in the occupied Zaporizhzhia region, Russian security forces abducted 35-year-old Ukrainian citizen Anna Shmalko. For two months, the woman was illegally held in an unknown place 'in the basement,' where she was in home clothes and rubber slippers without socks. They tortured her there. She was forced to name an 'accomplice,' under torture she falsely accused her husband's sister's 36-year-old husband, Sergei Sementsov. Only on October 26 of the same year, they were officially detained on charges of espionage, sabotage, and participation in a sabotage community. According to the Russian investigation, in 2022, Semenc and Shmalko contacted representatives of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and began transmitting information about Russian military facilities, equipment, and personnel." 2. In June 2023, the man reported the coordinates of a checkpoint in Tokmak, after which four military personnel were killed and four more were wounded. In July, Shmal'ko passed on data about the deployment of Russian military personnel near the highway, which led to an attack in which seven people were killed and 14 were injured. It is claimed that a total of 11 Russian servicemen were killed and 18 were wounded. September 25, 2025 at the latest, the Zaporizhzhia Regional Court found the defendants guilty and sentenced Serhiy Semenets to life imprisonment in a maximum-security penal colony, with the first 5 years to be served in prison, and Anna Shmal'ko to 21 years in a general-security penal colony. There is no information about appealing the verdict.