An accomplice of the Russian Federation who collaborated with the Russians during the battles for Mykolayiv has been sentenced to a real prison term, the SBU reports.
The defendant is a 25-year-old resident of Mykolayiv Region who, after the capture of Snihuriv district, supported the invaders and volunteered to be on duty at Russian checkpoints. There, he received automatic weapons and a task from the enemy: to identify Ukrainian patriots who were trying to take their families to the territory of Ukraine controlled by the Russian Federation.
Following the instructions of the occupiers, the suspect stopped civilian cars and, threatening the driver and passengers with weapons, forced them to get out of the vehicle. Then, under the guise of a ‘check’, the perpetrator would take away all documents, mobile phones, money, car keys and other items. Most victims had their property immediately ‘confiscated’.
After that, the traitor would point a machine gun at people and try to force them to stay in the then-occupied part of the Mykolayiv Region and cooperate with the Russians. Most of the victims were simply ‘turned back’, but they returned without their property.
During the liberation of the district centre by the Ukrainian Defence Forces, the occupiers left their accomplice in the community when they fled to the left bank of the Kherson Region. In order to avoid punishment, the enemy accomplice tried to be ‘invisible’ and constantly changed his addresses of temporary residence in the region.SBU officers established his whereabouts and detained him in a rented apartment.
Based on the SBU investigators' materials, the court found the offender guilty under Part 1 of Art. 111-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (aiding the aggressor state) and sentenced him to 11 years in prison with confiscation of property.