The SSU Counterintelligence has exposed another official who voluntarily collaborated with the aggressor state during the temporary occupation of the right-bank part of Kherson oblast.

The suspect is the former head of a local unit of Kherson Region Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.

After the area was captured, the woman was one of the first to support the russian invaders and offer them assistance in spreading the kremlin regime in the occupied territory.

For this, in June 2022, she was appointed head of the ‘sanitary and epidemiological station’ in the then-occupied Beryslav.

In this ‘position’, the ‘official’ forced her former subordinates to join the enemy pseudo-institution and promised russian salaries and support from the invaders.

If her former colleagues disagreed, she threatened to report them to russia’s punitive authorities as members of the resistance movement.

After the liberation of the area, the collaborator fled to a village in Bila Tserkva district, Kyiv region, trying to lie low and evade justice.

However, the SSU Counterintelligence found her anyway.

During the searches in the suspect’s apartment, the SSU found computer equipment and documents confirming her cooperation with the occupiers.

SSU investigators have served the woman a notice of suspicion under Article 111-1.5 of the CCU (collaboration). The court is to decide on a measure of restraint.

The suspect is facing up to 10 years in prison.

The SSU Office in Kyiv and Kyiv region exposed the collaborator under the procedural supervision of the regional Prosecutor’s Office.