The Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police detained two individuals who collaborated with russia during the temporary occupation of Kherson region.

One of them is a 40-year-old man who, after the area was captured, voluntarily joined the ranks of the russian torture chamber. The occupiers set it up in a local penal colony.

There, he was appointed ‘junior inspector of russia’s penitentiary directorate for Kherson region’ and guarded the cells where russians imprisoned members of the resistance movement.

Another detainee is a shop owner from Beryslav district who housed the occupiers in the homes of fellow villagers who had left for territory controlled by Ukraine.

She also provided the ruscists with food and betrayed citizens who resisted the kremlin regime in the community, providing information on them to the aggressor.

The SSU Counterintelligence detained the woman in a rented apartment in Dnipropetrovsk region, where she fled after Kherson’s liberation.

Both perpetrators have been notified of suspicion under Article 111-1.4, 111-1.7 of the CCU (collaboration).

The suspects are in custody and face up to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property.

The operational and investigative activities were carried out by the SSU Offices in Mykolaiv, Kherson and Vinnytsia regions in cooperation with the National Police under the procedural supervision of Mykolaiv and Vinnytsia Regional Prosecutor’s Offices.