Occupier's accomplice detained in Lviv: trying to flee to EU

The SBU and the National Police have prevented a collaborator who was part of the occupation "Interior Ministry" in the temporarily seized part of Zaporizhzhya from escaping from Ukraine. The attacker was involved in the capture of local members of the resistance movement. About it on 8 February reports the SBU.

Counterintelligence SBU detained the accomplice of the occupiers in Lviv, where he covertly arrived for further departure to the European Union, - stated in the message.

According to the investigation, the figure is a resident of Vasilievsky district in Zaporozhye, who in June 2022 joined the ranks of the occupation "district police department".

There, the attacker was included in the "punitive detachments" that kidnapped local residents on the streets or from their own homes. Also, the collaborator together with the RF troops robbed the homes of local residents under the guise of searches. Money, clothes, office equipment and other private property were stolen from citizens.

In addition, the defendant was involved in guarding the occupation "election committees" during the pseudo-referendum of the Russian Federation on the "joining" of the region to the aggressor country.

At the end of 2023, the attacker left for Lviv as an internally displaced person from the temporarily occupied territory in southern Ukraine. In the city, the man settled with his relatives and was preparing to illegally cross the border towards the EU.

Investigators of the SBU informed the defendant of suspicion under part 7 of article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (collaboration activities). He faces up to 15 years in prison.