Occupants convict SBU colonel for blowing up traitor from Kherson region

The occupiers convicted SBU Colonel Savitsky in absentia for the alleged attempted murder of collaborator Bulyuk in Kherson region. Ukrainian human rights activists consider the verdict indicative.

This was reported by Hryvnia.

A court of the aggressor country sentenced SBU Colonel Pavlo Savytskyi to life in absence for allegedly organizing an attempted assassination of Vitaliy Buliuk, a collaborator from Kherson region.

According to media reports, in 2023, in the same case, a court in Rostov sentenced two residents of Skadovsk, Yuriy Domanchuk and Vitaliy Skakun, to 23 and 24 years in a maximum security colony. They were declared saboteurs and perpetrators of the assassination attempt, while Ukrainian human rights activists believe that they were used as scapegoats.

The attack on Buliuk, who works for the aggressor state as a deputy governor of the TOT in the Kherson region, took place on December 12, 2022, in occupied Skadovsk.

According to the occupation court, in September 2022, Savitsky allegedly instructed other persons to monitor the traitor's movements for further undermining. Subsequently, an explosive device installed near the collaborator's house was detonated. The collaborator's car exploded: the driver was killed on the spot, and Buliuk himself was injured but survived.

The collaborator Vitaliy Buliuk headed Kherson Customs from 2007 to 2015, after which he was lustrated. He appealed his dismissal in court, and the claim was partially upheld: he was reinstated at the customs office and recovered his average salary for the period of forced absenteeism from March 28, 2015 to November 25, 2020 - UAH 814,113. After the 2020 local elections, he became a deputy of the Kherson Regional Council from the Nash Krai party. In 2022, the prosecutor's office notified Buliuk of suspicion of collaboration: he headed the occupation customs.

Last year in July, the Central District Court of Mykolaiv seized his family's property: four plots of land, two shops, a four-room apartment, several houses, and a trailer. Also seized were corporate stakes in three companies owned by his wife, Olena Buliuk

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