{"id":21789,"date":"2025-04-29T18:29:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T18:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/man-accused-of-trying-to-kill-russia-army-pilots-with-poisoned-liquor-and-cakes-is-sentenced-to-27-years\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T18:29:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T18:29:52","slug":"man-accused-of-trying-to-kill-russia-army-pilots-with-poisoned-liquor-and-cakes-is-sentenced-to-27-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/man-accused-of-trying-to-kill-russia-army-pilots-with-poisoned-liquor-and-cakes-is-sentenced-to-27-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of trying to kill Russia army pilots with poisoned liquor and cakes is sentenced to 27 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A Russian military court convicted and sentenced a man to 27 years in jail on Tuesday for attempting to kill army pilots with poisoned alcohol and cakes at a graduation party on Ukrainian orders.<\/p>\n<p>According to Russian investigators, Yegor Semenov was recruited by the Ukrainian secret service and was promised about $5,000 for sending poisoned alcohol and cakes to a military pilots graduation party in Armavir, southern Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Semenov, a 34-year-old dual national, was born in Ukraine and acquired Russian citizenship only in 2022, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The defendant was found guilty and sentenced to 27 years&#8217; imprisonment in a maximum security penal colony,&#8221; the court said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The poison plot ultimately failed as the pilots grew suspicious of the package and sent it for an examination, which revealed a lethal dose of a medical drug in the cakes and the whisky and cognac bottles. A <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/rbc_news\/117155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">post on Telegram<\/a> purported to show an image of a drug-laced cake.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors requested a life sentence for Semenov, who was charged with state treason and terrorism, and will appeal the verdict.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has been hit with a slew of killings of its servicemen behind the frontlines, including high-ranking generals, after launching its <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/ukraine-in-turmoil\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">offensive in Ukraine<\/a><\/span>, which entered its fourth year. Most recently, Russia has accused Kyiv of being behind the murder of senior Russian general Yaroslav Moskalik, who was <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/russian-general-killed-car-bomb-near-moscow-yaroslav-moskalik\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">killed in a car blast<\/a><\/span> outside Moscow last week.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine normally does not comment on any covert operations inside Russia but in some cases Kyiv has claimed responsibility. These include the August 2022\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/daria-dugina-car-explosion-killed-russia-daughter-alexander-dugin\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">car bombing of nationalist Darya Dugina<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and an explosion in a Saint Petersburg cafe in April 2023 that killed high-profile military correspondent\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/st-petersburg-bomb-cafe-military-blogger-vladlen-tatarsky\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Maxim Fomin<\/a><\/span>, known as Vladlen Tatarsky.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2023, Illia Kiva, a former pro-Moscow Ukrainian lawmaker who fled to Russia,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/illia-kyva-pro-kremlin-ukrainian-politician-assassinated-near-moscow\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">was shot and killed<\/a><\/span>\u00a0near Moscow. The Ukrainian military intelligence lauded the killing, warning that other &#8220;traitors of Ukraine&#8221; would share the same fate.<\/p>\n<p>Igor Kirillov, the head of the Russian military&#8217;s chemical weapons unit, was\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/igor-kirillov-russia-nuclear-defense-forces-head-killed-moscow-explosion\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">killed by a bomb planted<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in a scooter in Moscow in December. 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