The Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police have apprehended a collaborator who in the first months of the full-scale invasion headed the occupation ‘police’ in Nova Kakhovka, Kherson oblast.

After being ‘dismissed’ in April 2022, the individual was hiding for a long time in the European Union and later returned to Ukraine posing as an ordinary citizen.

The law enforcement agencies documented these facts and detained the suspect in Volyn, where he was trying to lay low.

According to the investigation, the enemy accomplice is a former security guard of a Novokakhovka private security company, who, after the city was seized, cooperated with the aggressor.

He agreed to head the local occupation ‘police’ to participate in the persecution of the members of the resistance movement.

The traitor coordinated his unlawful activities with the so-called ‘military commandant of the russian federation’ in the temporarily seized community.

While in this ‘position’, he involved like-minded people to the ranks of the occupation institution, with whom he further carried out repressions against Ukrainian patriots.

To do this, the ‘official’ posted patrols on the streets and participated in raids on pro-Ukrainian activists.

Later, the occupation administration ‘fired’ him. After that, he moved to Crimea, and from there, through third countries, to the EU.

In late 2024, the collaborator returned to Ukraine and settled in Volyn region, where he rented a house from a local resident. He was detained there by the law enforcement.

The perpetrator’s criminal actions are qualified under the Articles of the CCU:

• 28.3, 111-1.6 (collaboration, committed by an organized group);
• 111-1.7 (voluntary holding of a position by a citizen of Ukraine in illegal judicial or law enforcement bodies established in the temporarily occupied territory);
• 146.3 (illegal deprivation of liberty or abduction of a person, committed by an organized group).

The suspect is in custody and faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property.

The operation was carried out by the SSU Office in Kherson region jointly with the National Police under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor General’s Office.