A Moscow military court has jailed a dozen men accused of an alleged Ukraine-backed plot to assassinate the Kremlin's propaganda television chief for terms of up to 25 years.
The defendants, some of whom were under 18 when they were arrested, were sentenced after a closed-door trial in Moscow.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said the suspects belonged to a neo-Nazi group and had been paid by Ukraine to target Margarita Simonyan, head of the Kremlin-funded RT, a key arm of Vladimir Putin's propaganda regime.
Ukraine has not admitted any involvement in the plot and the allegations have not been independently verified.
Nicknamed 'Goebbels in a skirt', 44-year-old Simonyan was the target of an assassination attempt thwarted in July 2023, the FSB said.
