Crimean Collaborator Faces 8 Years for Calls to Occupy Ukraine

The prosecutor's office has brought a case against a Crimean collaborator for calling for the occupation of Ukraine.

According to the agency, the so-called head of the Public Chamber of Crimea is charged under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine: for public calls to change the country's borders (part 1 of article 110) and for justifying Russian aggression using the media (part 3 of article 436-2). If proven guilty, he faces up to 8 years in prison.

According to the investigation, in October 2022, the accused appeared on the pro-Russian TV channel Millet, where he spoke about the need to capture Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Chernihiv, as well as the territories of Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv regions. He repeated Russian propaganda about the "criminal regime" in Ukraine and Russia's "historical rights" to these lands.

Forensic linguistic examinations have confirmed that his statements contained justifications for the war and calls for changing Ukraine's borders. The final decision is now up to the court.

Recently, a deputy of the Sevastopol City Council of the VI convocation from the Party of Regions was found guilty of treason and sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Also, 11 "private entrepreneurs" of the annexed peninsula, who in 2022-2023 signed "contracts" with the occupation penal colonies in Sevastopol and the so-called "Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation", were suspected.

Earlier, under the public prosecution of the autonomy's prosecutor's office, a former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the AR of Crimea of the VI convocation, who supported the decision to hold an "all-Crimean referendum," was found guilty of treason. The man was sentenced to 13 years in prison. The convict is under international sanctions from the EU, the US, the UK, Australia, Japan, etc.

Андрій Колісніченко