Police Officer Sentenced to 15 Years for Collaborating with Invaders

A police officer from Henichesk, Kherson region, who transported people to torture chambers, was sentenced to 15 years in prison and confiscation of property. He was also stripped of his special rank of police corporal.

The court verdict was published in the Unified State Register of Court Decisions,

The investigation found that before the full-scale invasion, he worked at the Kakhovka District Department of the Security Police, holding the position of a police platoon officer for facility protection and public security. However, in 2022, the man sided with the invaders and began serving in the police department in Henichesk created by the invaders.

According to the Center for Investigative Journalism, the man in question is Yevhen Onyshko, a native of the village of Azovske in the Genichesk district of Kherson region.

Witnesses confirmed that after the beginning of the occupation, he guarded humanitarian supplies distributed by the occupation administration, was able to move freely through Russian checkpoints, and even transported people to the premises where the Russian military was based.

According to another witness, the accused, along with other collaborators, delivered detainees to the school building, which the invaders turned into a torture chamber. He was armed and had special equipment - helmets and handcuffs.

Despite the fact that in May 2022 he allegedly wrote a resignation letter, he continued to work for the occupiers. Later, he began working with a private security firm in Henichesk, which came under the control of the Russian invaders.

One of the witnesses also said that in March 2022, the building of the district police department was seized by Russian Guard and riot police. Ukrainian law enforcement officers were laid face down on the floor, after which police work in the city virtually stopped.

The court also sentenced a former police major from the Kherson region who had voluntarily defected to the occupiers. In addition, law enforcement officers served suspicions on two residents of Kherson who worked for the enemy in the "police department" during the occupation of the city.

Ірина Глухова