SSU and National Police expose another seven collaborators who worked for enemy during Kherson’s occupation
In Kherson, the Security Service of Ukraine and National Police have detained another seven collaborators. During the occupation of the city, they helped the aggressor spread kremlin regime in the region.
Among those detained are a father and son who after the city’s capture joined the so-called ‘penitentiary directorate for Kherson region’.
There, they were appointed guards at a russian torture chamber, which the invaders had set up in the then-captured Northern Penal Colony No. 90.
Being ‘junior inspectors’, they guarded the perimeter of the prison and the cells where members of the resistance movement were held.
Another collaborator is a former law enforcement officer who joined the 1st special purpose unit ‘grim’ of the russian ministry of internal affairs, where he carried out raids on the homes of local residents.
During these raids, the individual, together with the occupiers, abducted people and looted private property.
Another detained suspect is a woman from Beryslav district who was the ‘right hand’ of the local gauleiter and provided accommodation to russian occupiers in the homes of fellow villagers who had left for Ukraine-controlled territory.
The SSU also uncovered the crimes of a Kherson resident who worked as the ‘deputy head’ of the occupation ‘branch’ of the russian pension fund and called on local population to help the aggressor.
In addition to her, the former deputy chief physician of a local sanatorium was detained. The occupiers had ‘promoted’ her to the head of the captured institution. For this, she re-registered the institution under russian law and paid salaries in rubles.
The seventh detainee is a resident of Bilozerka district who during the russian sham referendum went from house to house in his settlement and urged fellow villagers to vote for the ‘annexation’ of the region to russia.
The perpetrators have been notified of suspicion under two Articles of the CCU, according to the offences they committed:
- 111-1.5, 111-1.7 (collaboration);
- 111-2.1 (aiding the aggressor state).
The suspects are in custody without bail and face up to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property.
The operations were carried out by the SSU Offices in Chernihiv, Kherson and Ternopil regions jointly with the National Police under the procedural supervision of Chernihiv and Kherson regional prosecutor’s offices.
