The SSU has prevented another collaborator from leaving Ukraine. As a result of an operation in Kherson, the SSU apprehended a local resident who had guarded a torture chamber during the occupation of the city.

When Kherson was liberated, he burned his russian ‘prison guard’s ID’ and moved to a rented apartment to cover his tracks.

The man planned to hide until January 2025, when he would turn 60, and then go abroad as an immigrant from southern Ukraine.

However, the SSU found and detained him.

During the search of his home, the investigators seized a mobile phone with evidence of the crime, as well as uniforms issued to him by the occupiers.

According to the investigation, at the beginning of russia’s full-scale invasion, he worked as an electrical engineer at a local enterprise.

After Kherson was captured, the man voluntarily joined the ‘administration’ of a russian prison that operated in a local penal colony.

As a ‘junior inspector of the supervision and security unit’, he guarded the cells in which members of the resistance movement were held.

In the jail, the ruscists tortured Ukrainian patriots and tried to force them to cooperate with the aggressor.

The detainee has been notified of suspicion under Article 111-1.7 of the CCU (collaboration, voluntary occupation of a position by a citizen of Ukraine in unlawful law enforcement agencies established in the temporarily occupied territory).

The suspect is in custody and faces up to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property.

The operation was carried out by the SSU Offices in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Kherson region under the supervision of Kherson Region Prosecutor’s Office.