He thought Ukrainian army uniform would hide what he did under occupation. It didn’t. Man who guarded Kherson’s Russian-run prison drew eight years
He guarded cells holding captured Ukrainian resistance members, then hid inside the army before the SBU caught him at a training center.
A man who served as a junior inspector at a Russian-run prison in occupied Kherson has been sentenced to eight years in prison. Following Ukraine's recapture of the city, the collaborator attempted to flee into a Ukrainian army unit, but he was apprehended by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in March 2025 at an army training center.
The man had initially stayed in his apartment after the right bank of Kherson was liberated, while hoping to remain inconspicuous by joining the Ukrainian military. However, SBU officers detained him upon discovering his collaboration with the occupiers. Under the criminal code, the man was convicted of collaboration and sentenced to eight years in prison, with a ban on holding positions in state bodies or law enforcement for up to ten years.
The case was investigated by the SBU in Mykolaiv and Kherson oblasts in collaboration with the National Police and the Mykolaiv specialized defense prosecutor's office.
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