Appellate court kept Colonel Chervinsky in custody
On January 25, the Kyiv Court of Appeal considered an appeal against the detention of Colonel Roman Chervinsky. The preventive measure was left unchanged.
Censor.NET informs about this with reference to Suspilne.
Lawyer Lyudmila Kusa filed an appeal against the detention of Roman Chervinskyi.
"For ten months now, my client has been in custody without an alternative.
I ask the decision of the investigating judge to be canceled. If the board comes to the conclusion that either the suspicion is justified or one of the risks exists, please determine an alternative preventive measure that will allow my client to be with his family. I emphasize once again that the suspicion is unfounded. There are no risks," said Kusa.
Another defender of Chervinsky, Andrii Yosypov, asked the court to apply a certain amount as an alternative to bail.
The prosecutor's office opposed the change of the preventive measure.
"We believe that any other preventive measure not related to detention is not capable of ensuring that Chervinskyi fulfills the procedural rights and obligations entrusted to him and will not be able to prevent the latter from the risks that I mentioned. Therefore, I believe that the preventive measure applied to Roman Chervinskyi in the form of detention will ensure the fulfillment of such duties. I ask that the appeal be dismissed," said prosecutor Yaroslav Havryshchuk.
As a result of the appeal, the court left the preventive measure unchanged - Chervinskyi remains in custody.
The case of Colonel Roman Chervinsky: What is known
The media reported that the Ukrainian military had been recruiting a Russian pilot for several months to hijack the plane. According to media reports, Roman Chervinsky was among them. Subsequently, as the SSU noted, the "operation" was carried out over the objections of the SSU and without the consent of the relevant state authorities. As a result, the enemy received information about the deployment of personnel of the Ukrainian Air Force and Ukrainian aircraft at the Kanatove airfield. This allowed the Russian Armed Forces to shell the airfield.
Later, Chervinsky gave Censor.NET an exclusive interview in which he spoke about the operation at Kanatove airfield.
In April 2023, the SSU served Chervinsky with a notice of suspicion in the case of the shelling of the Kanatove airfield in the Kirovohrad region by the occupiers. He was detained in the Ternopil region.
Major General Viktor Hanushchak, who was in charge of the military unit to which Colonel Chervinsky was assigned as deputy commander, told Censor.NET that the operation at Kanatove airfield had been agreed with the top leadership of the Armed Forces. However, the court refused to hear Hanushchak and did not accept evidence in favor of Chervinsky.
Roman Chervinskyi was one of the intelligence officers who organized an operation in 2020 to detain Russian mercenaries from the Wagner PMC, luring them to Belarus. There, the mercenaries were supposed to board a plane that would later be crash-landed in Ukraine by the Ukrainian special services. However, the operation failed. On 24 June 2021, President Zelenskyy confirmed the preparation of a special operation against the Wagnerians. Zelenskyy also said that the special operation against the Wagnerites was the idea of other countries and that Ukraine was involved in this issue as much as possible.
In December 2021, DIU intelligence officers Chervinsky and Semeniuk spoke about the betrayal of the operation. According to Chervinsky, several people from the President's Office could have leaked information about the operation to detain the Wagnerites. He also said that the Presidential Office threatened the ex-intelligence officers with criminal proceedings.
On 28 December 2023, Colonel Roman Chervinsky was served a notice of suspicion of attempting to seize USD 100,000 by impersonating an official of the State Fiscal Service.
