The Security Service of Ukraine has apprehended three more collaborators who cooperated with russia during the temporary occupation of Kherson.

One of them is a local resident and her 42-year-old daughter, who in September 2022 helped ruscists to hold a pseudo-referendum on the region’s ‘accession’ to russia.

To do this, the women voluntarily joined the occupation ‘election commission’, which falsified the results of the illegal vote.

While in the ‘commission’, they called for participation in the fake plebiscite, distributed ‘ballots’ and then falsified the ‘votes’ in kremlin’s favour.

During the liberation of the city, the collaborators tried to escape from justice: the daughter went to the EU, and her mother fled to the left bank with the occupiers.

Later, the enemy accomplices returned to Kherson. The SSU detained both upon their return.

Another traitor is a 60-year-old resident of Kherson who set up an occupation ‘election commission’ in the premises of a local school.

There, he decorated the walls with agitation symbols of the aggressor state and urged the school staff to ‘vote’.

The collaborator also converted school classrooms into barracks for the invaders and collected food for them.

After Kherson’s liberation, the man stayed in the city and laid low. The SSU documented his crimes and detained him in his apartment, where he was hiding from justice.

SSU investigators have now notified all three detainees of suspicion under Articles 28.2,111-1.5 of the CCU (collaboration, committed by a group, upon prior conspiracy).

The suspects face up to 10 years in prison with confiscation of property.

The operation was carried out by the SSU Office in Kherson region under the procedural supervision of the regional Prosecutor’s Office.

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