A resident of Kuban has been accused of treason.

The case of a Krasnodar Krai resident accused of transferring money to the Ukrainian Armed Forces has been referred to court.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," in November 2025, the Krasnodar Krai Court sentenced 44-year-old Novorossiysk resident Natalya Lopatko to 14 years in prison, finding her guilty of treason. Investigators believe the woman passed information about air defense systems in Novorossiysk to a Ukrainian citizen friend, whose father is a serviceman in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The Kuban Deputy Prosecutor approved the indictment against a 38-year-old resident of the Timashevsky District, charged under Article 275 of the Russian Criminal Code (high treason), the regional prosecutor's office reported today on its Telegram channel.

According to investigators, between February 24 and March 20, 2022, the woman repeatedly transferred a total of 100,000 rubles from her bank account "to a bank account used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces for the purpose of financing them."

The investigation was conducted by the Investigative Department of the Federal Security Service (FSB) for the Krasnodar Krai. "The criminal case has been sent to the Krasnodar Regional Court for consideration on the merits," the prosecutor's office reported.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported on the case of Kevin Lik from Maikop, a citizen of Germany and Russia, who was sentenced in December 2023 to four years in prison on charges of treason. According to investigators, Lik, as a schoolboy, observed a military unit and photographed its locations.

According to an acquaintance of Lik, he had previously posted photographs of flowers and plants in the mountains on social media, and also posted several portraits of himself, one of which was taken against the backdrop of a memorial armored train in Tula. Lik's case was the first case in Russia in which a schoolchild was charged with treason; previously, the youngest defendants in treason cases were college-age people.

In August 2024, Lik and 15 other convicted individuals, including human rights activist Oleg Orlov (included in the register of foreign agents), were released as part of a prisoner exchange with Western countries.