Details of the life sentence for ex-governor of Kherson from the SBU

Based on SBU materials, a former Kherson mayor was sentenced to life in absentia.

According to the agency's press service, based on the evidence of counterintelligence and SBU investigators, collaborator Oleksandr Kobets, former head of the Kherson occupation administration, was sentenced to life imprisonment with confiscation of property.

According to the investigation, before the start of the full-scale war, he lived in Kyiv, where he was engaged in commerce and had close ties with representatives of the Russian Federation. In March 2022, Kobets illegally left our country and arrived in Kherson, which was captured at the time, via third countries. There, the Nazis appointed him head of the occupation administration and instructed him to spread the Kremlin regime in the port city.

The post says that after receiving the "position," Kobets immediately began preparing a pseudo-referendum on the "accession" of the region to Russia. The gauleiter also introduced Russian "legislation" in the seized municipal and social institutions, including schools, hospitals and kindergartens. According to the case file, the traitor coordinated his criminal activities with another Gauleiter, Volodymyr Saldo, and curators from Moscow.

Shortly after his appointment, the Nazis removed Kobets from the chair of the occupation mayor of Kherson and sent him "with a demotion" to Genichesk to establish the activities of local fake Russian authorities.

Based on the SBU materials, the court found the offender guilty under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:

Part 2 of Art. 111 (high treason committed under martial law)

Part 5 of Art. 111-1 (cooperation).

The investigation was conducted by the SBU in Kherson region under the procedural supervision of the regional prosecutor's office.

It was also reported that the SBU detained an FSB resident who had created his own network of informants in Kherson.

Володимир Шкаєв