MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court sentenced physicist Alexander Shiplyuk to 15 years on treason charges on Tuesday in the latest of several cases against experts working on the science underpinning Russia’s development of hypersonic missiles, Russian news agencies said.
Shiplyuk, the 57-year-old director of a top Siberian science institute, was arrested in August 2022. Two of his colleagues, Anatoly Maslov and Valery Zvegintsev, were also detained on suspicion of treason. Maslov, 78, was handed a 14-year sentence in May.
Reuters was not able to immediately contact a lawyer for Shiplyuk.
The trio from the Novosibirsk university are among nearly a dozen scientists researching hypersonic missile technology against whom Russia has brought treason cases in recent years.
(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Lucy Papachristou and Anastasia Teterevleva; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)
