Based on the evidence collected by the Counterintelligence and investigators of the Security Service of Ukraine, collaborator Oleksandr Kobets, former head of the occupation administration in Kherson, has been sentenced to a life imprisonment with confiscation of property.

Before the start of the full-scale war, Kobets lived in Kyiv, was involved in commerce and had close ties with russia.

In March 2022, he illegally left Ukraine and, via third countries, arrived in Kherson, which had been captured at that time.

The ruscists appointed him head of the occupation administration and tasked him with implementing the kremlin regime in the city.

After his appointment, Kobets immediately began preparations for the sham ‘referendum’ on the ‘annexation’ of the region to russia.

The gauleiter also enforced russian ‘legislation’ within the occupied municipal institutions and social facilities, including schools, hospitals, and kindergartens.

The traitor coordinated his criminal activities with another gauleiter, Vladimir Saldo, and supervisors from moscow.

Subsequently, the occupiers removed Kobets from his position as occupation mayor of Kherson. With a demotion, he was sent to Henichesk to set up fake local authorities.

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

• 111.2 (high treason, committed under martial law);
• 111-1.5 (collaboration).

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