The Security Service and the National Police have detained two russia’s accomplices in different parts of Ukraine. They assisted ruscists in repressing the civilian population during the occupation of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions in 2022.

The investigation revealed that one of those detained was a resident of the temporarily occupied village of Mykhailivka in the Zaporizhzhia region. Following the community’s capture, she joined the local unit of the ‘russian ministry of internal affairs’.

There, she was appointed ‘senior inspector for juvenile affairs’. In this role, she compiled records of children who publicly supported the resistance movement, particularly on social media and during mass events.

These lists were subsequently used as grounds for sending Ukrainian children to special occupation institutions.

The law enforcement detained the suspect in Ukrainian-controlled territory, where she had travelled to visit relatives.

To evade justice, the woman used a passport in which she had changed her surname at the start of the large-scale invasion.

Another suspect has been detained in Kherson. He is an unemployed local man who, following the occupation, guarded a torture chamber set up by the ruscists in a seized detention centre.

In his position as ‘junior inspector of the duty unit’, he monitored the perimeter and the prison blocks where Ukrainian patriots were being held.

In the cells, prisoners were regularly tortured: beaten with sticks, subjected to electric shocks and left without food or water for extended periods. The enemy attempted to coerce the victims into cooperating in this way.

After the port city was liberated, the suspect went into hiding at his home and only left it when absolutely necessary.

The SSU documented his crimes and detained him.

Both suspects have now been notified of their status as suspects under Article 111-1.7 of the CCU (collaboration).

They face up to 15 years’ imprisonment with confiscation of property.

The operations were carried out by the SSU Offices in Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv and Kherson regions under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor’s Offices.