<p>A Russian military court handed down a 14-year sentence to a man it found guilty of cooperating with a foreign state and "justifying terrorism," Russian media reported on Monday.</p><p>Investigators initially accused Vladlen Menshikov, 29, of attempting to sabotage railway lines carrying military equipment near his hometown of Rezh, a small village near the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, the Vecherniye Vedomosti newspaper said.</p><p>He was later charged with the two other counts and the attempted sabotage charge was dropped, the newspaper said, citing documents from the Yekaterinburg military court.</p>.US journalist missing in Russia-controlled eastern Ukraine: Report.<p>It said Menshikov was suspected of receiving instructions from the Freedom of Russia Legion, a Ukrainian-based paramilitary group of Russians who oppose President Vladimir Putin and who have claimed responsibility for cross-border attacks into Russian territory.</p><p>Russian officials have linked pro-Ukrainian sabotage groups with numerous attacks on railways aimed at disrupting supplies to the war front in Ukraine since Moscow's full-scale invasion began more than two years ago.</p><p>Ukraine's domestic spy agency has also been accused of detonating explosives on railway lines inside Russia.</p><p>Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the Soviet-era KGB, detained Menshikov in September 2022 at St Petersburg airport while he was trying to board a flight to Belarus, Vecherniye Vedomosti said.</p><p>The newspaper did not say if Menshikov intended to appeal.</p>
<p>A Russian military court handed down a 14-year sentence to a man it found guilty of cooperating with a foreign state and "justifying terrorism," Russian media reported on Monday.</p><p>Investigators initially accused Vladlen Menshikov, 29, of attempting to sabotage railway lines carrying military equipment near his hometown of Rezh, a small village near the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, the Vecherniye Vedomosti newspaper said.</p><p>He was later charged with the two other counts and the attempted sabotage charge was dropped, the newspaper said, citing documents from the Yekaterinburg military court.</p>.US journalist missing in Russia-controlled eastern Ukraine: Report.<p>It said Menshikov was suspected of receiving instructions from the Freedom of Russia Legion, a Ukrainian-based paramilitary group of Russians who oppose President Vladimir Putin and who have claimed responsibility for cross-border attacks into Russian territory.</p><p>Russian officials have linked pro-Ukrainian sabotage groups with numerous attacks on railways aimed at disrupting supplies to the war front in Ukraine since Moscow's full-scale invasion began more than two years ago.</p><p>Ukraine's domestic spy agency has also been accused of detonating explosives on railway lines inside Russia.</p><p>Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the Soviet-era KGB, detained Menshikov in September 2022 at St Petersburg airport while he was trying to board a flight to Belarus, Vecherniye Vedomosti said.</p><p>The newspaper did not say if Menshikov intended to appeal.</p>