13 February 2025
(Photo: Depositphotos/ Yuri Kovalev)
In the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region, Russian invaders have announced their intention to conduct a "record" sowing campaign, planning to sow about a million hectares.
This is reported by the publication Rayon.Skadovsk with reference to the occupiers' propaganda media.
In particular, such plans were announced by collaborator Yuriy Kovalev, who holds the position of the so-called chairman of the Committee on Agricultural Policy in the occupation administration.
As noted in Chesno, in 2020, Yuriy Kovalev was elected as a deputy of the Kherson Regional Council from the Servant of the People party.
In Ukraine, Kovalev was notified of suspicion of collaboration: he participated in the pseudo-elections to the occupation Duma and urged residents to vote for Russian proxies.
In addition, he re-registered the Kherson Production and Experimental Plant for Breeding Young Fish under Russian law, sold fish products in the occupied territories, and registered 13 other companies under Russian jurisdiction. He is also known to have helped the Russian military in Hola Prystan by accommodating them on the territory of his companies.
His brother, MP of the 9th convocation from the Servant of the People party, Oleksiy Kovalev, who also sided with the occupiers, was killed in August 2022 in the occupied Hola Prystan.
The court sentenced two collaborators from Kherson region to 15 years in prison for working for the Russians.
Recently, law enforcement officers served suspicion notices to two residents of Kherson who worked for the enemy in a "police station" during the occupation of the city. They are a 37-year-old woman and a 48-year-old man suspected of voluntarily taking up positions in the illegally created "Suvorov City Police" that operated under the control of the invaders.
The court also sentenced a former police major from Kherson region who voluntarily defected to the occupiers. He was found guilty of committing serious criminal offenses, including treason and collaboration. The accused is a native of Illinka village, Kakhovka district, Kherson region, a resident of Fedorivka village, Dariivka community.
Андрій Колісніченко