A 44-year-old Kherson resident who collaborated with the enemy when the city was under Russian occupation and helped the invaders escape during the Ukrainian counter-offensive last year has been detained, Ukraine’s SBU security service reported on Telegram on Dec. 7.
The suspect provided the Russians with information about local boat owners and helped steal their property. The boats were then marked with the letter Z and used to transport troops and collaborators to the Dnipro River’s left bank, which remains under occupation.
The traitor was left behind after the de-occupation and moved to his relatives in Mykolaiv Oblast, where he tried to hide from justice, but was eventually located and arrested by SBU officers.
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He was arrested on suspicion of aiding Russia. He is currently in custody and faces up to 12 years in prison and property confiscation.
On Nov. 11, 2022, the Russian Defense Ministry reported the full withdrawal from the right bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast, which had been under occupation since first days of the full-scale invasion. The same day, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy officially announced the liberation of Kherson.
On Sept. 27, the Russian invaders announced the “results” of a staged “referendum” allegedly held in the occupied territories of Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts. Russian propagandists claimed that over or nearly 90% of the population in Ukraine’s occupied territories had “voted” for annexation to Russia. Numbers of 98.42% were invented for Luhansk Oblast, 93.11% for Zaporizhzhya Oblast, 87.05% for Kherson Oblast, and 99.23% for Donetsk Oblast.
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Russian dictator Vladimir Putin signed papers signifying the Kremlin’s claim to have annexed these Ukrainian territories, in a press briefing on Sept. 30. The signing was attended by the heads of the Donbas puppet authorities, as well as collaborators from Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya and Kherson oblasts.
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