Sarah Ashton-Cirillo
- Criminal Code
- Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
- Verdict
- Imprisonment (in absentia)
- Sentence
- 20 years
- Date of verdict
- 2025-06-02
- Region
- Occupied territory of Donetska oblast
Case summary
A US citizen, a journalist. In March 2022, she went to Ukraine, reported from the front lines, and joined the AFU Territorial Defence Force. From August to September 2023, she was their English-speaking spokesperson, but was removed from her position after making threats against the Russian military. In February 2024, she was placed on Rosfinmonitoring's list of extremists and terrorists. It later became known that a case was brought against her for mercenarism and dissemination of knowingly false information about the Russian Armed Forces (neither of these articles at the time was grounds for including a person on the Rosfinmonitoring list). On 2 June 2025, Ashton-Cirillo was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment in absentia.
Others charged under Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
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