Russian senator threatens Kherson resident with execution

Prosecutors have submitted to the court an indictment against former State Duma deputy and now Russian Senator Igor Kastyukevich, who is a representative of the occupation authorities in Kherson region. He is accused of violating the laws and customs of war, combined with cruel treatment of civilians.

This was reported by the Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office.

The investigation established that in September 2022, Kastiukevych, while in the occupied Velyka Lepetysa, Kakhovka district, where he was distributing Russian symbols, joined the illegal detention and interrogation of a local resident.

A representative of the occupation authorities took part in the interrogation of the detainee and, not satisfied with the answers about his attitude to the occupiers, began to apply psychological pressure, threatening the man with execution. According to the police, the Russian military, together with Kastiukevych, beat the victim with the butt of a rifle and imitated cutting off his ear with a knife.

After the torture, the civilian was held in unsanitary conditions in a seized police station for several days, deprived of food and medical care, and then released without any documents.

Kastiukevich already faces several suspicions from Ukrainian law enforcement agencies for encroachment on the territorial integrity and deportation of Ukrainian children.

The Khadzhibeysky District Court of Odesa sentenced 48-year-old Galina Raiko in absentia to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property. The former candidate of technical sciences and head of a department at Kherson National Technical University (KNTU) was found guilty of aiding the enemy and collaboration.

According to the court's verdict, in July 2022, Raiko voluntarily headed the 'Kherson Technical University' illegally created by the occupiers . Witnesses said that in this position, she personally persuaded her colleagues to remain working for the Russian authorities, gave interviews to propagandists, fired those who disagreed, and even held an illegal referendum in September 2022 under military protection.

Катерина Глушко