Occupation vice-mayor, occupiers' gunner and passport officer detained in Kherson

The Security Service of Ukraine has detained three more Russian accomplices who collaborated with the occupiers in Kherson region.

This was reported in the press service of the agency.

The report says that one of them was a resident of the regional center, an agent of Russian military intelligence (better known as GRU) Yulia Hryn, who adjusted enemy fire on the Defense Forces. To do this, the suspect traveled around the community on a scooter and tried to identify the locations of Ukrainian troops involved in combat operations at the front. The enemy's priority targets were camouflaged headquarters, firing positions and strongholds ofthe Armed Forces units. The agent sent the obtained information to the Russian agent via messenger in the form of screenshots with markings of military facilities on Google maps. In the course of the special operation, the SBU detained the traitor in her own home and took comprehensive measures to secure the positions of the Defense Forces.

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Another detainee is a 60-year-old former law enforcement officer from Kherson, Dmytro Trigub, who joined the local occupation administration of the Russian Federation after the seizure of the community. There, the former mayor of the city, Oleksandr Kobets, appointed the collaborator as his "deputy for legal affairs." Among his main tasks was the preparation of a pseudo-referendum of the racists on the region's accession to the aggressor country.

Photo: SBU

The third suspect, who was detained by the SBU jointly with the National Police, is also a resident of the regional center, who was a member of the so-called "Main Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Kherson region" during its occupation. In the ranks of the pseudo-agency, Natalia Isaykova was engaged in the "passportization" of local residents through the forced registration of Russian citizenship.

Photo: SBU

SBU investigators served the detainees suspicion notices (in accordance with the crimes committed) under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:

• ч. 2 of Art. 111 (high treason committed under martial law);
• paras. 5, 7 Art. 111-1 (collaboration).

The offenders are in custody. They face from 15 years in prison to life imprisonment with confiscation of property. The operation was conducted by the SBU Office in Kherson region jointly with the National Police under the supervision of the Regional Prosecutor's Office.

Володимир Шкаєв