Court is considering appeal against detention of Colonel Chervinskyi. VIDEO&PHOTOS
Today, November 20, a hearing is taking place in the Kyiv Court of Appeal in the case of the former intelligence officer of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, Colonel Roman Chervinskyi. The Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv extended his preventive measure in the form of detention until December 16, but the lawyers do not agree with this decision.
This is reported by Censor.NET.
"As of today, 3 appeals of Chervinskyi's lawyers have been appointed for consideration. In one case, Judge Melishak, who extended the term of detention of Roman Chervinskyi without lawyers. This shameful ruling must be canceled 100%, because the law requires that any ruling made without lawyers be canceled. But the courts, prosecutors delayed the consideration of this appeal and more than 2 months have passed, they do not consider it. And they continue to delay the consideration.
The second ruling of Judge Slobodianiuk, who recognized the suspicion as justified and we filed a complaint against it. The appeal is also not considered, because it is obvious that the suspicion is groundless. Hero-intelligence officer Roman Chervinskyi is accused without evidence, he did not do anything that the investigation imputes. He did not inform the Russian side about the operation, did not provide data on the airfield, and had nothing to do with the shelling that took place. The investigation uses all Russian narratives to accuse him. As proof of guilt, investigators provide a story of the channel "Russia 24", where Russians say that they have taken revenge. And Judge Slobodianiuk repeats Skabeeva's narratives that "instead of a plane, missiles arrived." Although there is no evidence that these events - the movement of the plane and the shelling - are connected. And it's not Chervinskyi's fault.
The third appeal is the continuation of Roman Chervinskyi's detention. This is the main appeal now, it will tell you whether he will be released today. Therefore, it was set for the very last time, and they are trying to delay the time so as not to consider it today and to move it as far as possible so that Chervinskyi continues to sit. Judges no longer know what to do with these decisions, they come to a dead end. Each time, the law is broken more and more. They understand that they will be held accountable and simply try not to consider appeals," Chervinskyi's lawyer said.
Earlier media reported that the Ukrainian military had been recruiting a Russian pilot for several months to hijack the plane. Among them, according to media reports, was Roman Chervinskyi. Subsequently, as noted in the SSU (Security Service of Ukraine), the "operation" was carried out despite the objections of the SSU and without the consent of the relevant state bodies. 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, Chervinskyi gave an exclusive interview to Censor.NET, where he spoke about the operation at the Kanatove airfield.
In April 2023, the SSU notified Chervinskyi of suspicion in the case of the shelling of the Kanatove airfield in the Kirovohrad region by the occupiers. He was detained in Ternopil region.
Major General Viktor Hanushchak, who was subordinate to the military unit in which Colonel Chervinskyi was enlisted as Deputy Commander, said in an interview with Censor.NET that the operation at the Kanatove airfield was agreed with the top leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). However, the court refused to hear Hanushchak and did not accept evidence in favor of Chervinskyi.
Roman Chervinskyi was one of the intelligence officers who in 2020 organized an operation to detain Russian mercenaries from the Wagner PMC (Private Military Company), luring them to Belarus. There, the contractors were supposed to board a plane, which would later be crash-landed in Ukraine by the Ukrainian special services. However, the operation failed. On June 24, 2021, President Zelenskyy confirmed the preparation of a special operation against the Wagnerites. Zelenskyy also said that the special operation against the Wagnerites was an idea of other countries and Ukraine was involved in this issue as much as possible.
In December 2021, HUR MO (The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine) Chervinskyi and Semeniuk spoke about the betrayal of the operation. According to Chervinskyi, several people from the Office of the President could "leak" information about the operation to detain the Wagnerites. He also said that the Office of the President threatened the ex-intelligence officers with criminal proceedings.
Photo and video by Oleh Bohachuk, Censor.NET
