Traitor from Kherson tried to become a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

In Kherson, SBI officers together with the SBU thwarted the defector's plans. During the occupation of the city, the man worked in a seized colony, and after the liberation of the region, he tried to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He was detained.

This was reported by the State Bureau of Investigation.

According to the investigation, in June 2022, the suspect voluntarily agreed to work for the Russian occupiers, receiving a position as a dog handler in a colony seized by the Russian authorities. For his activities, he received a salary in rubles.

After the de-occupation of Kherson, the man decided to stay in the territory controlled by Ukraine, trying to hide his past. However, he was exposed when he tried to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
He was notified of suspicion of collaboration (Part 7 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code), which provides for up to 15 years in prison. The court imposed a pre-trial restraint in the form of detention without bail.

Recently, it became known that a former employee of the Northern Correctional Colony No. 90 went over to the side of the enemy and carried out criminal orders and instructions of the occupiers for money.

Earlier, the court found a former employee of the penal colony guilty of high treason committed under martial law. The man was sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property and deprivation of his special rank of Major of Internal Service. While in the temporarily occupied territory of Kherson region, the man voluntarily agreed to work for the enemy in an illegally created law enforcement agency, which was part of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation and acted under the laws of the aggressor country.

The court also sentenced a resident of Kherson who voluntarily agreed to serve in the Russian police during the occupation. Police investigators also notified the "first deputy" of the illegally created by the occupiers "detention center" of suspicion of committing a war crime. The man ensured the forced transfer of more than 1500 convicts to the temporarily occupied left bank of the Kherson region.

In the fall of 2023, the Center for Public Investigations released a film "Who Kidnapped the Prisoners of the Snihuriv Correctional Colony in the Village of Tsentralne".

Андрій Колісніченко