Director of a kindergarten in occupied Kherson forced staff to speak Russian

A teacher from Kherson will be tried for aiding the aggressor state. The investigation found that she took the position of the head of kindergarten No. 60 and was converting the institution to Russian educational standards.

This was reported by the press service of the Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office.

Prosecutors of the Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office have sent to court an indictment against a speech therapist from Kherson on the fact of aiding the aggressor state, as provided for in part one of Article 111-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

According to the investigation, before August 2022, the suspect voluntarily took the position of head of kindergarten No. 60 in Kherson, which is subordinated to the city council and worked according to Ukrainian educational programs. After her appointment, she began to actively implement measures aimed at integrating the institution into the Russian educational system.

In particular, she re-registered the kindergarten in the registers of the aggressor state, replaced Ukrainian symbols with Russian ones and demanded that the staff work exclusively according to Russian educational standards.

The so-called head of the kindergarten forced the staff to speak only Russian both at work and during the educational process. On her orders, all Ukrainian books and textbooks were removed from the library and replaced with Russian publications. In addition, during classes, children were shown Russian cartoons with propaganda content included in the new calendar and thematic plans.

As Intent previously wrote, in early December, in Mykolaiv, a judge granted the request of SBU investigators and allowed the investigation to be conducted in absentia, as the suspect is in the temporarily occupied territory and evading the investigation.

The case has now been submitted to court. Under the article on aiding the aggressor state, the woman faces imprisonment for a term of 10 to 12 years.

Анна Бальчінос