In the course of multi-stage operational and investigative activities in Kyiv and liberated territories of eastern Ukraine, the SSU exposed another enemy accomplice.

The offender is a former head of a communal enterprise in the temporarily occupied Svatove, Luhansk region.

After this Ukrainian town was captured, the man was one of the first to support russian invaders and offer them his assistance in the war against Ukraine.

For this, he was appointed the chief of a local ‘municipal unitary enterprise for gentrification’ established by the aggressor.

While in his ‘position’, the collaborator helped the occupation administration to organize ‘mass’ events and staged TV stories in support of russia’s armed aggression.

The individual also carried out moscow’s instructions to rename the streets of the captured town with ‘Soviet’ names.

For this purpose, he personally signed the ‘administrative’ documents and controlled the process of ‘sovietization’ of the town infrastructure.

However, during Ukraine’s counter-offensive, the collaborator fled to the aggressor state, where he had been hiding since September this year. Later, he decided to quietly return to Ukraine and ‘get lost’ in Kyiv.

However, the SSU timely exposed the criminal’s plans and detained him in the capital.

SSU investigators notified the detainee of suspicion under the Article 111-1.5 of the CCU (voluntary occupation by a citizen of Ukraine of a position related to performance of organizational, administrative and economic functions in the occupation administration of the aggressor state).

Court is to decide on custody as a measure of restraint.

The operation and investigation were conducted by the SSU Office in Donetsk and Luhansk regions jointly with the SSU Office in Kyiv and Kyiv region under the procedural supervision of Luhansk Region Prosecutor’s Office.