The SSU has detained in Kyiv the former deputy head of the occupation administration in Alchevsk, the temporarily occupied part of Luhansk region. After her moving to the capital, the suspect hoped to ‘go unnoticed’ in the city by working at a social services centre.

The investigation established that, in 2014 the suspect was a member of the forbidden ‘Party of Regions’ and headed the city’s Department of Education in Alchevsk.

Following the occupation of the city, she collaborated with the ruscists, who subsequently appointed her as the so-called ‘deputy mayor’ of the temporarily occupied city.

In this ‘position’, the suspect carried out the kremlin’s orders to force local residents to obtain russian passports and impose russian citizenship upon them.

She also forced teachers at the occupied schools to cooperate with the russian occupation administration and to adjust the curriculum to the ‘standards’ of the aggressor state.

Before the full-scale war broke out, the suspect had left Alchevsk due to a personal conflict with the new ‘mayor’ of the occupied community.

She subsequently arrived in Kyiv and settled near her children. The suspect concealed the facts of her collaboration with the occupiers in order to secure a position at the local social services centre.

Computer equipment and phones with evidence of collaboration with the enemy were found during searches of the suspect’s workplace and place of residence.

SSU investigators notified her of suspicion under Part 1 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (high treason).

The suspect faces up to 15 years’ imprisonment with confiscation of property.

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