The SSU identified 26 members of the criminal organization of the ‘main directorate of the ministry of internal affairs of the russian federation in Kherson region’ in the temporarily occupied territory.

The offenders include 25 collaborators and one russian who, after the start of russia's full-scale invasion, voluntarily joined the punitive body created by the aggressor.

After ‘interviews’ with fsb officers, they were appointed to the so-called ‘Novokakhovka City Police Department’.

The offenders carried out moscow's instructions to suppress the resistance movement and spread the kremlin regime in the region. To do this, they used repressive methods, in particular, abducting civilians and imprisoning them in russian torture chambers.

The victims were tortured with the use of electric shock in such ‘prisons’. Some people were beaten to death with rubber truncheons.

Using mass abductions, torture, and murder of civilians, the ruscists tried to intimidate local residents and suppress resistance to the occupation regime.

It was established that the recruiting of punishers was carried out by collaborator Oleh Shorokhov, a former law enforcement officer who headed the occupation ‘city department’ in April 2022.

According to the investigation, he was ‘assisted’ by a former russian police officer who was ‘sent’ to the captured city to coordinate the criminal actions of collaborators from the local unit of the ‘russian ministry of internal affairs’.

After joining the punitive body, ‘recruits’ received ‘IDs’ and russian uniforms, as well as firearms.

Based on the collected evidence, SSU investigators served notices of suspicion to the offenders under the following articles of the CCU:

• 110 (encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine);
• 255 (creation, leadership of a criminal community or criminal organization, as well as participation in it);
• 127 (torture);
• 146 (illegal deprivation of liberty or abduction);
• 111-1 (collaboration).

The notices of suspicion were served to the following collaborators:

• 1. Shorokhov Oleh Volodymyrovych, dob 21.11.1975,
• 2. Mostavliuk Dmytro Oleksandrovych, dob 03.01.1971,
• 3. Kuzakov Yehor Valentynovych, dob 06.03.1978,
• 4. Nasiedkin Mykola Konstantynovych, dob 05.04.1991,
• 5. Moskalenko Serhii Viktorovych, dob 23.10.1978,
• 6. Kramarenko Oleksandr Illich, dob 18.11.1965,
• 7. Abseliamov Tymur Asanovych, dob 02.11.1990,
• 8. Pasenchuk Serhii Anatoliiovych, dob 24.07.1984,
• 9. Veremeichyk Vadym Oleksandrovych, dob 18.07.1989,
• 10. Druz Serhii Vitaliiovych, dob 12.03.1992,
• 11. Fysyna Denys Oleksandrovych, dob 26.10.1996,
• 12. Smal Maksym Ivanovych, dob 22.09.1997,
• 13. Chelnokov Serhii Hennadiiovych, dob 13.08.1985,
• 14. Pryshchepov Mykhailo Anatoliiovych, dob 10.07.1998,
• 15. Fedchyshyn Stepan Mykhailovych, dob 20.11.1999,
• 16. Molhun Volodymyr Leonidovych, dob 14.03.1995,
• 17. Vidnichuk Volodymyr Anatoliiovych, dob 10.08.1990,
• 18. Orlov Oleh Viacheslavovych, dob 19.12.1986,
• 19. Prokopets Dmytro Olehovych, dob 27.09.2002,
• 20. Radak Oleksii Yuriiovych, dob 08.02.1983,
• 21. Leonenko Vitalii Mykolaiovych, dob 25.06.1997,
• 22. Mukhminov Ruslan Serhiiovych, dob 24.03.1987,
• 23. Vasylenko Serhii Leonidovych, dob 27.11.1980,
• 24. Fursa Pavlo Oleksandrovych, dob 19.06.1980,
• 25. Ternavskyi Roman Ivanovych, dob 11.09.1977,
• 26. russian citizen Moldavantsev Oleksii Oleksandrovych, dob 17.09.1968.

The investigation is ongoing to bring the offenders to justice for crimes against Ukraine, as they are staying in the temporarily occupied territory.

The operation was conducted by the SSU Office in Kherson region jointly with the Internal Security Department of the National Police under the supervision of the Prosecutor General's Office.