19-Year-Old Danylo Yefimov Gets 12 Years in Russian Prison for Sending Money to Ukrainian Charity

19-year-old Danylo Yefimov was sentenced to 12 years in a treason case in Russia for making several transfers to the Ukrainian Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation. Russian security forces found the transactions when checking the phone at the border.

This was reported by Pervyy Otdel (Первый отдел), a Russian human rights project that specializes in closed trials and criminal cases of treason, espionage, and extremism.

At the end of December 2023, Danylo was taken to an interrogation room at the airport, after trying to pass with a Ukrainian passport.

There, security forces took the young man’s mobile phone and found several transfers to the Ukrainian charitable foundation of Serhiy Prytula in the Ukrainian bank application. Immediately after this, Danylo was detained without telling his father and girlfriend who were waiting for him.

In early July, just six months after his arrest, the Rostov Regional Court sentenced Danylo to 12 years in a maximum security colony and a year of restricted freedom.

According to Pervyy Otdel, Danylo is now in a pre-trial detention center in Rostov-on-Don, awaiting transfer. He is sitting in a 10-bed cell with 16 other Ukrainians. Most of them are residents of the occupied territories. They sleep in turns: some of the prisoners during the day, and some at night.