One of the defendants was a former saleswoman from the right bank of the Kherson region. After the liberation of the right bank, she fled to Khmelnytskyi region under the guise of a displaced person. Another defendant is the secretary of the headman of one of the village councils of the Kupyansk district of the Kharkiv region. After the deoccupation of the village, the defendant tried to “lay low”.
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The Security Service has exposed two more collaborators who collaborated with the Russian Federation in the Kharkiv and Kherson regions at the beginning of the full-scale war, the SBU press service reports.
Both perpetrators were preparing pseudo-referendums on the “annexation” of the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine to Russia.
One of the defendants was a former saleswoman from the right bank of Kherson. After the capture of the Berislav district, the woman got a job in the occupation “electoral commission” that the Reshetnikovs had set up on the territory of the community. There she dealt with “ballots” and, accompanied by Russian military personnel, went around the courtyards where she collected “votes”. In case of refusal to sign in support of the Kremlin, she threatened persecution by the occupiers.
After the liberation of the right bank of the region, the collaborator fled to the Khmelnytsky region, where she hid from justice under the guise of a displaced person.
SBU officers found the offender and informed her of suspicion under Part 2 of Article 28, Part 5 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (collaboration committed by prior agreement by a group of persons).
The detainee is in custody. She faces up to 10 years in prison.
Traitor law enforcement officer faces 10 years for organizing a “referendum” in the Kherson region
Another defendant is the secretary of the headman of one of the village councils of the Kupyansk district of the Kharkiv region. During the temporary occupation of the community, she got a job in the local occupation administration of the Russian Federation. There she collected passport data of fellow villagers in order to use them later to conduct a fake plebiscite in the then occupied part of the region's territory.
After the deoccupation of the village, the defendant tried to “lay low”, but law enforcement officers established her location and reported her suspicion under Part 2 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (collaboration activity).