The SSU has collected evidence of high treason by the pro-kremlin propagandist Mykhailo Shpir, who is hiding in the temporarily occupied territory of Kherson region.

Shpir was a frequent guest on Medvedchuk’s TV channels and fled to moscow in 2020.

Following the SSU’s investigation, in June 2023, he was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison with confiscation of property for his actions.

However, he faces more severe punishment for the new documented crimes.

The SSU’s cyber units have found evidence of his cooperation with russian intelligence services.

At the beginning of russia’s full-scale invasion, Shpir became one of the kremlin’s main mouthpieces that publicly supports putin in the aggressive war against Ukraine.

After the capture of Kherson, the traitor was appointed the so-called ‘deputy minister of digital development and mass communications’ in russia’s local occupation administration.

The SSU established that it was he who authorized the ruscists to blow up the towers of Ukrainian mobile and broadcasting operators when they fled the right bank of the Dnipro.

Among other things, Shpir publicly called on the russian general staff to adjust missile strikes on Ukraine’s energy facilities to completely disable them.

For this, in the summer of 2023, the russian military command awarded his accomplice a medal of ‘participant of the special military operation’.

SSU investigators have notified Shpir of suspicion under four Articles of the CCU:

• 111.2 (high treason committed under martial law);
• 111-1.5 (collaboration);
• 436 (propaganda of war);
• 436-2.2, 436-2.3 (justification, recognition as legitimate, denial of russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine, glorification of its participants).

The suspect is hiding from prosecution in russia and the temporarily occupied part of Ukraine. Efforts are underway to bring him to justice.

The investigation was carried out by the SSU Office in Ivano-Frankivsk region under the procedural supervision of the regional Prosecutor’s Office.