SBU visits Kherson water utility and informs of detention

In Kherson, a 68-year-old employee of a water utility distributed pro-Russian newspapers among her colleagues. The pensioner was detained and faces a prison term.

This was reported by the SBU Office in Kherson region.

According to the investigation, in the summer of 2022, while working at a seized enterprise, the woman organized the distribution of Russian newspapers among her colleagues. In these publications, the authors justified Russia's full-scale invasion, praised local collaborators and called for support for the invaders.

They also propagated hatred of the Ukrainian army, denied the legitimacy of the Ukrainian government, and gave the impression that Russians cared about the residents of Kherson region.

The prosecutor's office added that the 68-year-old suspect received from the occupation administration the printed publications Naddnepryanska Pravda (The publication of the military and civil administration of the Kherson region) and Komsomolska Pravda.

After the liberation of the right bank of Kherson region, the woman stayed in Kherson and continued to work at the enterprise. She has now been notified of suspicion of disseminating materials justifying Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine. The water utility worker faces up to five years in prison.

Recently, a court sentenced a former member of the Supreme Council of Crimea for supporting the occupation of the peninsula. He was convicted of treason in absentia.

In addition, an occupation official from Crimea will be tried for treason and collaboration. Prior to the occupation of the peninsula, he served as the first deputy head of the territorial department of the State Committee of Ukraine for Mining, Industrial Safety and Labor Protection in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.

Earlier, the court sentenced in absentia a servicewoman of the 57th separate motorized infantry brigade of the operational command "South" Natalia Lisitskaya, who was found guilty of aiding the aggressor state.

Also, 9 ex-prosecutors from Crimea were in the dock.

Ірина Глухова