Based on the evidence collected by the SSU, the court convicted another three perpetrators who collaborated with the aggressor in the temporarily occupied Luhansk region and during the seizure of a part of Kharkiv region.

The SSU detained them as a result of operations in eastern oblasts of Ukraine. One of them is a ‘telephone operator’, who laid a communication line to the offices of the russian occupation administration in Balakliya, and the head of an ‘LNR pension fund’ unit.

Based on the SSU’s investigations, the court sentenced them to 5 to 11 years in prison.

In Kharkiv region:

The collaborator is a 52-year-old resident of Balakliya, who supported the invaders immediately after the full-scale invasion started.

During the occupation, the man set up telephone communications in the premises of russia’s local occupation authorities.

He also organized broadcasting of russian propaganda radio channels in the city through a network of loudspeakers on infrastructure buildings.

In these radio broadcasts, the enemy called on local population to cooperate with ruscists and called on members of the partisan movement to surrender to russian captivity.

After the liberation of Balakliya, the traitor tried to hide from prosecution. However, the SSU found and detained him.

Another collaborator is a resident of Kupyansk district who voluntarily headed the occupation ‘center for social services’.

In this ‘position’, the woman organized distribution of the so-called ‘humanitarian aid’ from the aggressor to the supporters of ruscism.

Every ‘aid package’ included the russian propaganda newspaper Kharkiv Z, which denied russia’s armed aggression and justified the invaders’ crimes.

In Luhansk region:

A former official of one of the municipal institutions has been sentenced to prison. In April 2022, he agreed to head a unit of the ‘LNR pension fund in Novopskov district’.

There, he met with local entrepreneurs and urged them to fill the occupiers’ budget by paying ‘pension fees’ to the russian treasury.

The SSU apprehended the collaborator when he secretly arrived in Kyiv as an internally displaced person and tried to legalize, posing as a volunteer.

The investigations were conducted by the SSU Offices in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk regions under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor’s Office.