Oksana Gladkikh
Oksana Gladkikh, born 1976, Occupied territory of Zaporizka oblast. Charges: Article 275, Russian Criminal Code (Treason against the state); “Oksana Gladkikh's case”. Sentence (October 1, 2025): 13 years' imprisonment in a general regime penal colony and 1 year's restriction of liberty. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since October 1, 2025; place of detention: Penal colony No. 33, Kirov Oblast. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, August 22, 2025.
In brief
Occupied territory of Zaporizka oblast · Manual workers
Sentence
13 years
imprisonment in a general regime penal colony and 1 year's restriction of liberty
First instance, June 6, 2024: 14 years
Charges
- Article 275, Russian Criminal Code — Treason against the state
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, she collected and transmitted information to an employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine regarding the location of personnel and military equipment of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Furthermore, she allegedly provided coordinates of engineering and fortification barriers, as well as defensive structures intended for transportation security.
Latest event
October 1, 2025 — cassation
The court changed the sentence to 13 years.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, August 22, 2025
Timeline
· Cassation ruling
sentence changed · 13 years
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 14 years
· Persecution begins
Oksana Gladkikh's case
Criminal case
Oksana Gladkikh's case
Write a letter
Facility: Penal colony No. 33, Kirov Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
612607, Кировская область, г. Котельнич, Даровской тракт, ФКУ «ИК № 33 УФСИН России по Кировской области», Гладких Оксана Николаевна, 1976 г.р.
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Full summary
A resident of the Pryazovskyi district in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, currently under Russian occupation. On 24 November 2023, she was detained on charges of high treason. According to the investigation, she provided an employee of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine with information regarding the location of military and engineering facilities. Mediazona, citing Gladkikh's letters, reports that she was taken to occupied Mariupol, where she was moved between locations with a bag over her head. In the spring of 2024, she was transferred to Crimea. No later than 7 June 2024, Gladkikh was sentenced to 14 years in a general regime penal colony. On 1 October 2025, a court of cassation reduced her sentence by one year.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia, Ukraine
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