Judge Natalia Valikova of the Moscow Regional Court sentenced 49-year-old Kyiv resident Tatyana Omelchenko to 12 years in a general regime colony on charges of treason, reported a correspondent from the courtroom of «Mediazona»*. She was also fined 400 thousand rubles.
The state prosecutor Viktor Rodionov requested a 14-year sentence for Omelchenko and a fine of 400 thousand rubles. According to the prosecution, Omelchenko made 16 transfers totaling 6600 hryvnias (more than 15 thousand rubles) for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2023-2024. The prosecutor also noted that the Ministry of Internal Affairs is already demanding to revoke Omelchenko's Russian citizenship.
Omelchenko was detained on September 25, 2024, at Sheremetyevo Airport. The transfers were found in her banking application at border control upon arrival from Minsk. After her detention, she was subjected to carousel administrative arrests in Solnechnogorsk, near Moscow.
The woman fully admitted her guilt, explaining that due to her husband's terminal illness, she had been involved in charity since 2020 and considered these transfers to the Armed Forces of Ukraine as charity as well: «I succumbed to the general excitement of transferring money, being in a state of stress due to constant air raids».
She asked for the minimum punishment and to postpone it until her son, who was left without a father, turns 18 years old.
* Recognized as a «foreign agent» in Russia.