A resident of Simeiz, on Crimea’s southern coast, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for photographing a military ship belonging to the Black Sea Fleet.

The court convicted the defendant of treason and ordered the sentence to be served in a high-security penal colony.

According to the prosecutor’s office, the defendant photographed one of the Black Sea Fleet’s ships with a mobile phone while traveling from Sevastopol. The defendant sent the information collected to a representative of a foreign state via a messaging app.

The prosecutor’s office also said that the defendant worked for Ukrainian military intelligence.