Based on the evidence collected by the Security Service, another traitor, who helped ruscists capture Luhansk in 2014, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison with confiscation of property.

After the occupation of the regional centre, he was appointed ‘assistant to the LNR minister of internal affairs’ and commander of an assault unit of the so-called rapid response special group, which is part of the russian SOBR.

Prior to this, the perpetrator commanded a group of militants who seized the administrative building of the regional SSU Office.

The Security Service detained him in November 2022 in Kyiv, where he had arrived to ‘start a new life’ after ending his ‘career’ in the ranks of russian armed groupings.

According to the investigation, the convicted man is a resident of Luhansk who, after the region was seized, joined the russia-controlled terrorist groups.

In addition to seizing government buildings, he helped the occupiers to find the resistance movement members and imprison them in the torture chambers of the occupying administration.

At the behest of the russian intelligence, the traitor created an extensive network of informants who leaked to him the bases and movement routes of Anti-Terrorist Operation units in eastern Ukraine.

He passed the collected information to his russian handlers to launch artillery strikes on the Ukrainian positions.

Based on the SSU’s investigation, the court found the accused guilty under three Articles of the CCU:

• 111.1 (high treason);
• 263-1.1 (illegal manufacture, alteration, or repair of firearms, ammunition, explosives, or explosive devices);
• 263.1 (illegal handling of weapons, ammunition, or explosives).

The investigative and operational activities were carried out by the SSU Department for Protection of National Statehood and the SSU Main Investigation Directorate under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor General’s Office.