Resident of Kherson region fed Russian military at checkpoints and betrayed fellow villagers

Kherson resident Mykhailo Horbunov is suspected of high treason for cooperating with the Russian military in the occupied territory. He organized food supplies and passed information about local residents and ATO participants to the enemy.

This is stated in the decision of the Prosecutor General's Office.

A citizen of Ukraine, Mykhailo Horbunov, while staying in the temporarily occupied territory of the village of Kucheryavovolodymyrivka, Kherson region, decided to assist Russia in conducting subversive activities. According to the investigation, in May 2022, he began to establish contacts with representatives of the aggressor state.

Horbunov organized the delivery of food and drinking water to the checkpoints where the Russian military was stationed in the Chaplynka community. He established contact with the commander of the Vyatych special forces unit and was recruited.

In addition, the man used his connections to collect and pass analytical information to the enemy, including personal data of citizens who exposed Russian crimes on the Internet, information about internally displaced persons, as well as accounts of ATO participants and the military.

Under the occupiers, Horbunov held the position of the head of the village of Kucheryavovolodymyrivka in Kherson region. He also ordered filtration measures, during which residents of the Kherson region were detained, searched, their property seized, and taken prisoner. The collaborator also passed information to the enemy about local residents, in particular those who were leaving so that the occupiers could take their property

The court authorized the investigation to conduct a pre-trial investigation.

In May, the Prosecutor General's Office served him with a notice of suspicion. For the crimes committed, Horbunov was notified in absentia of suspicion of high treason and collaboration under Part 2 of Article 111 and Part 5 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. He faces life imprisonment with confiscation of all property.

A resident of Kherson was also served a notice of suspicion of aiding the aggressor state. During the occupation, she headed a medical institution created by the occupation authorities and hung the flag of the Russian Federation over it. This is the Kherson Regional Children's Pulmonary Sanatorium "Dnipro", which the occupiers replaced with a legal Ukrainian institution. The woman was taken into custody.

Анна Бальчінос