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Leonid Pasechnik, the Russia-installed head of the occupied territories in Luhansk Oblast, was found guilty of undermining Ukraines territorial integrity and collaborationism, Ukraines Security Service (SBU) reported on July 2. He was sentenced in absentia to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property and banned from holding public office in Ukraine for 13 years. According to the SBU, Pasechnik signed an agreement between the occupied Luhansk Oblast and Moscow shortly before the onset of Russias full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Such decisions were used as a formal pretext by Russia