The Security Service has collected evidence against collaborators Valery Kravchenko and Dmitry Kirdeev, who are carrying out repressions against residents of the temporarily occupied Luhansk region.

As the investigation established, after the capture of the regional centre in 2014, both perpetrators joined the ‘LNR ministry of state security’, which is under control of russian intelligence services.

Within the ranks of the occupation authority, they were appointed ‘operational officers’ and, in the spring of 2022, were tasked with conducting raids to locate members of the resistance movement.

During these raids, Kravchenko and Kirdeev, along with their accomplices, abducted people directly from their homes and looted their property.

The victims were then taken to the torture chambers of the pseudo-institution. The ‘officers’ personally carried out torture: they placed a bag over the prisoners’ heads and then beat them with rifle butts and rubber batons.

During the torture, the perpetrators also applied electric shocks to the victims. In this way, they were forcing confessions from the repressed regarding their cooperation with the Ukrainian Defence Forces.

Both collaborators have now been reassigned to the occupation ‘FSB directorate for the LNR’, where they continue mass repression against residents of the temporarily occupied Luhansk and surrounding areas.

SSU investigators have notified Kravchenko and Kirdyeyev in absentia of suspicion under Articles 28.2 and 438.1 of the CCU (war crimes, committed by a group, by prior conspiracy).

The proceeding has been forwarded to the court. The suspects have been placed on the wanted list. Efforts to bring them to justice are ongoing.

The investigation was carried out by the SSU Office in Donetsk and Luhansk regions under the procedural supervision of the Luhansk Region Prosecutor’s Office.