SIMFEROPOL. Dec 10 (Interfax) - The Crimean Supreme Court sentenced businessman Lenur Islyamov in absentia on Thursday to 19 years in a high-security penitentiary for organizing the blasting of power line supports in southern Ukraine, which caused a blackout on the Crimean Peninsula in 2015.
The sentence was pronounced in absentia, as the defendant wanted by Russia has been lately residing in Ukraine, an Interfax correspondent reported from the courtroom.