Three collaborators, who worked for Russia during occupation of Kharkiv and Luhansk regions, sentenced to 5 and 11 years in prison - SSU. PHOTO
Thanks to the SBU evidence base, three more collaborators who cooperated with the aggressor in the temporarily occupied Luhansk region and during the seizure of part of Kharkiv region received real prison terms.
This was reported by the SSU press service, Censor.NET reports.
It is noted that SSU officers detained the traitors as a result of comprehensive measures in eastern Ukraine. The suspects include a 'telephone operator' who communicated with the offices of the former Russian occupation administration in Balakliya and the head of the 'LPR pension fund' unit.
Based on SSU materials, the court sentenced them to 5 to 11 years in prison.
For example, in the Kharkiv region, a 52-year-old resident of Balakliya, who supported the invaders immediately after the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, turned out to be a collaborator.
"During the seizure of the city, he made telephone calls to the premises of the local occupation authorities of the aggressor country. He also organised the broadcasting of Russian propaganda radio channels in the city through a network of loudspeakers on infrastructure buildings," the statement said.
The SSU noted that in such radio broadcasts, the enemy called on local residents to cooperate with the Nazis and urged members of the partisan movement to surrender to Russian captivity.
After Balakliya was released, the offender tried to hide from justice. However, SSU officers established his whereabouts and detained him.
Another collaborator is a resident of the Kupiansk district, who voluntarily headed the occupation "centre for the provision of social services" during the seizure of the community.
In this "position", she organised the distribution of so-called "humanitarian aid" from the aggressor country to supporters of racism.
The "gumpacket" necessarily included the Russian propaganda newspaper Kharkiv Z, which denied Russia's armed aggression and justified the crimes of the invaders, the press service said.
In the Luhansk region, a former official of one of the region's municipal institutions was sentenced to prison, who in April 2022 agreed to head one of the divisions of the "LPR pension fund in Novopskov district".
In the ranks of the invaders, he met with local entrepreneurs and urged them to fill the occupation budget by paying "pension fees" to the Russian treasury.
SBU officers detained the collaborator when he secretly arrived in Kyiv as an internally displaced person and tried to "legalise" himself under the guise of a volunteer, the press service added.
