FILE PHOTO: Defendant Nikita Zhuravel, who was detained in May 2023 under a law against offending religious believers' feelings after he burned a copy of the Koran outside a mosque in Volgograd city, attends a court hearing in the Chechen capital of Grozny, Russia, February 27, 2024. REUTERS/Chingis Kondarov/File Photo
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian man jailed in February for burning the Koran has been charged with treason by prosecutors who accuse him of passing video footage of military movements to Ukraine.
In a statement, Russia's prosecutor general's office said that 20-year-old Nikita Zhuravel was accused of sending footage of a freight train carrying warplanes, and information about the movements of a car linked to a Russian military base to a representative of Ukrainian intelligence.
