The SSU Military Counterintelligence has collected evidence against Vyacheslav Kharev, former deputy chief of the Crimean Territorial Command of Ukraine’s MIA Internal Troops, who betrayed his oath.

When the Crimea was occupied, the official remained in Simferopol and sided with the russian invaders.

For this, occupiers appointed him ‘chief of staff of the main directorate of the russian guard troops in the republic of Crimea and Sevastopol’ and promoted to ‘major general’.

According to the investigation, from the start of russia’s full-scale invasion, Kharev was commanding units that took part in capturing parts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts.

In this ‘position’, the traitor is also directly fulfilling the kremlin’s instructions to suppress resistance on the peninsula.

To do this, he organizes mass repressions, during which ruscists kidnap people from their homes or just on the streets and imprison them in jails.

Among the victims are Ukrainian patriots in the Crimea who resist the aggressor.

In prisons, they are subjected to psychological pressure and physical violence. There are frequent cases when captives are held for long periods of time without food and water, with repeated threats of ‘slow death’.

In this way, the enemy is trying to intimidate Crimean population, break their resistance and force them to cooperate with the aggressor.

Based on the evidence collected, the Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol city has notified Kharev of suspicion of high treason (Article 111.1 of the CCU).

Since the suspect is in the temporarily occupied part of Ukraine, comprehensive efforts are underway to bring him to justice.