Russian authorities have sentenced a resident of occupied Tokmak to 15 years in prison for donating to the Armed Forces of Ukraine
In the temporarily occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region, a so-called “regional court” has sentenced 69-year-old Tokmak resident Svitlana Loy to prison. The woman was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment for transferring funds to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to the illegitimate “court.”
Video grabSvitlana Loy, born in 1956, lived in the city of Tokmak, which remains under temporary Russian occupation. In December 2023, she obtained a Russian passport but did not renounce her Ukrainian citizenship.
According to the occupation authorities, between January and November 2024, the woman systematically transferred funds to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine. She used a mobile application from a Ukrainian bank to complete the transactions.
In total, the pensioner made 24 transfers totaling 63,420 rubles. She sent the funds in hryvnias from her Ukrainian pension, believing she had the right to manage her own savings to support the Ukrainian military.
The occupation court accused her of “anti-Russian views” and “high treason,” sentencing her to 15 years in a general regime penal colony, with an additional one-year restriction of freedom.
Russian occupation authorities continue to persecute Ukrainians for alleged links to “nationalist formations” and their past professional activities. In the first half of December 2025 alone, sentences of up to 17 years were reported. Russian forces have also detained former military personnel and pensioners from occupied parts of the Luhansk, Kherson regions, and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
