Sopiga Sergey Ivanovich (Sopiga Sergiy Ivanovich)

On August 1, 2020, in the city of Alchevsk in the occupied Luhansk region, 59-year-old local resident, Ukrainian citizen Sergey Sopiga, was abducted from his home. He was accused of treason under the "LNR" criminal code. According to the security forces, in December 2014 Sopiga left the LNR and lived for some time in the city of Shepetivka, Khmelnytskyi region, where in August 2015 he agreed to cooperate secretly with the Security Service of Ukraine. It is claimed that his "curator" was Voitsekhovskiy Vitaliy Olegovich, an employee of the Shepetivka District Department of the SSU in the Khmelnytskyi region. On the instructions of Voytsekhovsky, Sopiga made several trips to the "LNR, where he "collected information about the socio-political situation in the Republic, information about personnel, the movement of equipment, and the locations of the People's Militia of the LNR." The information he collected he passed on to his "curator. March 30, 2021 at the latest, the Supreme Court of the "LNR" found Sergey Sopiha guilty and sentenced him to 10 years in a strict regime colony. There is no information about appealing the verdict.