The Security Service and the National Police have collected evidence against nearly the entire personnel of the ‘russian ministry of internal affairs district department’ in the temporarily occupied city of Skadovsk on the left bank of Kherson region.

According to the investigation, these are 16 members of a criminal organisation operating within the ranks of the occupying authority, ranging from chiefs to guards of russia’s fake agency.

They are spreading the kremlin regime in the region through mass repressions of local population.

Numerous raids by these armed ‘officials’ on the homes of residents of Skadovsk and nearby settlements have been documented.

During such ‘measures’, the perpetrators abducted people, looted their property, and imprisoned the victims in a local torture chamber set up within the occupying ‘district department of the russian MIA’.

In the jail, victims were choked until they lost consciousness, were hung by their bound hands, subjected to mock executions, and tortured with electric shocks.

As established by the investigation, the suspects are local collaborators who, after the community was seized, supported the invaders and joined the ranks of russia’s occupation administration.

Based on the collected evidence, investigators of the Security Service issued in absentia notices of suspicion to:

1. Startsev Hennadii Ivanovych, d.o.b.: 3 May 1970;
2. Kuzmeniuk Ihor Ivanovych, d.o.b.: 13 April 1974;
3. Baryla Oleksandr Serhiiovych, d.o.b.: 28 March 1996;
4. Zahumennyi Serhii Serhiiovych, d.o.b.: 10 March 1992;
5. Lukashevych Oleksandr Volodymyrovych, d.o.b.: 18 September 1991;
6. Vlasenko Vasyl Vitaliiovych, d.o.b.: 6 July 1994;
7. Kurylenko Serhii Oleksandrovych, d.o.b.: 19 January 1990;
8. Sirenko Ihor Vladyslavovych, d.o.b.: 17 January 2001;
9. Chornyi Dmytro Serhiiovych, d.o.b.: 25 January 1994;
10. Yarylovets Dmytro Oleksandrovych, d.o.b.: 30 March 1979;
11. Semybratnyi Yurii Andriiovych, d.o.b.: 10 June 1996;
12. Badaiev Oleksandr Mykolaiovych, d.o.b.: 8 November 1978;
13. Yesypenko Artem Oleksiiovych, d.o.b.: 4 December 1991;
14. Ohorodnyk Oleksandr Volodymyrovych, d.o.b.: 3 April 1969;
15. Popach Maksym Oleksandrovych, d.o.b.: 7 December 1994;
16. Tykhniuk Oleh Mykolaiovych, d.o.b.: 12 March 1985.

The perpetrators are suspected under five Articles of the CCU:

• 255.2 (creation, management of, and participation in a criminal organization);
• 111-1.7 (collaboration);
• 127.2 (torture);
• 146.3 (unlawful deprivation of liberty or kidnapping);
• 186.5 (robbery).

As the collaborators are hiding on the temporarily occupied left bank of Kherson region, efforts to locate and bring them to justice are underway.

The investigation was carried out by investigators of the SSU Main Investigation Directorate and the SSU Kherson Office, in cooperation with the National Police, under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor General’s Office.