The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detained two more collaborators in Kharkiv and Kherson who collaborated with Russia at the beginning of the full-scale war.
This is stated in the SBU report.
One of the detainees is a former official of the Kupyansk City Council who, after the seizure of the community, voluntarily joined the local Russian occupation administration. He was appointed "chief specialist of the construction department".
The collaborator was engaged in the reconstruction of buildings destroyed by Russians for their further transfer to the needs of the aggressor country. First of all, the Russian agent equipped ammunition depots of Russian army at such facilities.
After the de-occupation of the community, the collaborator fled to Kharkiv as an IDP, but was exposed and detained in a rented apartment.
Another Russian accomplice was a resident of Kherson. After the seizure of the regional centre, she got a job in the occupation "election committee". The woman was a member of the so-called "mobile voting groups" that visited the homes of local residents and campaigned for their support of the fake referendum.
At the same time, the collaborator demanded that people sign "ballots on the accession" of the region to Russia.
After the liberation of the regional centre, the offender remained in the city, where she tried to "lay low" and avoid justice. However, she was exposed and detained.
The SBU investigators served both suspects notices of suspicion under the following articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
- p. 2 Art. 111-1 (collaboration);
- p. 2 Art. 28, Part 5 Art. 111-1 (collaboration committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons).
The offenders face up to ten years in prison with confiscation of property.