Jan. 2, 2025, 5:19 p.m.
The Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Special Prosecutor's Office has served a notice of suspicion in absentia to a former border guard who committed desertion and collaborated with the occupiers.
This was reported by the Specialized Defense Prosecutor's Office of the Southern Region.
According to the investigation, in May 2014, the former head of the registration and passport work group of one of the border detachments of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine did not report for duty and is still evading military duties. His actions were classified as desertion.
In February 2015, the man moved to the temporarily occupied Crimea. After several attempts to find a job, in December 2017, he voluntarily became an assistant to the head of the so-called "Republic of Crimea" in an illegal body created by the occupiers.
The pre-trial investigation in this case is being conducted in absentia by investigators of the State Bureau of Investigation in Mykolaiv. The former serviceman faces up to 10 years in prison on charges of desertion and collaboration with the enemy.
Recently, prosecutors of the Odesa Regional Prosecutor's Office sent to court an indictment against the deputy commander of a law enforcement convoy unit in the southern region on charges of negligence.
With the support of the public prosecution, the court found the former penal colony employee guilty of high treason committed under martial law. The man was sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property and deprivation of his special rank of Major of Internal Service.
Earlier, the court sentenced a resident of Kherson who voluntarily agreed to serve in the Russian police during the occupation. Police investigators also reported that the "first deputy" of the illegally created by the occupiers "detention center" was suspected of committing a war crime.
Ірина Глухова