{"id":584020,"date":"2026-10-01T17:58:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T14:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=584020"},"modified":"2026-10-02T09:20:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T06:20:02","slug":"ukrainian-receives-suspended-sentence-for-transferring-military-pilot-training-software-to-belarus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/ukrainian-receives-suspended-sentence-for-transferring-military-pilot-training-software-to-belarus","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Receives Suspended Sentence for Transferring Military Pilot Training Software to Belarus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A Ukrainian court has sentenced a Ukrainian citizen to a two-year suspended sentence for transferring software to Belarus for the KTS-21M stationary integrated military training simulator. He was found guilty of circumventing sanctions and violating rules governing the international transfer of dual-use goods and services, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svaboda.org\/a\/33867890.html\">Radio Svaboda reports<\/a>, citing the court ruling.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant fully admitted his guilt and reached a plea agreement with prosecutors. The court sentenced him to two years in prison but suspended the sentence with a two-year probation period. During this period, he will be supervised by probation authorities and will not be allowed to leave Ukraine without special permission.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, the software was transferred no later than June 2025 via a messaging app. The Ukrainian allegedly received $1,000 for it.<\/p>\n<p>Several Ukrainian citizens were mentioned in the case. According to investigators, one of them works in Belarus for Aeromash Production Technologies and Aircraft Engineering Group CJSC in Machulishchy near Minsk.<\/p>\n<p>The company is involved in aviation engineering, ranging from design and development to manufacturing, repair and modernization. It integrates simulators of various levels into a single network and develops training programs for pilots and engineers. KTS-21M simulators are used to train pilots of MiG-29 military aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant previously worked as a designer of modular electronic aviation simulators for Mi-8 and Mi-24 military helicopters, MiG-29 fighter jets and Il-76 military transport aircraft. He transferred the technology to his former colleague at the Institute of Automated Systems of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ukrainian court has sentenced a Ukrainian citizen to a two-year suspended sentence for transferring software to Belarus for the KTS-21M stationary integrated military training simulator. He was found guilty of circumventing sanctions and violating rules governing the international transfer of dual-use goods and services, Radio Svaboda reports, citing the court ruling. The defendant fully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":584019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6abf4d17de0e9.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Ukrainian Receives Suspended Sentence for Transferring Military Pilot Training Software to Belarus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143284,143127],"tags":[143123],"class_list":["post-584020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-world","category-society","tag-ukraina"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}