Ukrainian investigators claimed on Tuesday, November 22 to have arrested for “treason» a manager of the Russian remand centers in Kherson (south), a city liberated on November 11 after more than eight months of occupation by troops from Moscow.
“From the first days of the occupation of Kherson, this employee of a detention center worked for the invaders … as a manager of remand centers and places of execution of sentencessaid the Ukrainian State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) in a statement.
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“Escape of imprisoned criminals”
According to the SBI, this employee “enabled the escape of criminals imprisoned just before the liberation of Kherson“. After the arrival of the Ukrainian army on November 11 following a two-month counter-offensive by kyiv in the Kherson region, “he did not have time to escape and was detained by SBU employees“, said the SBI in its press release.
The suspect was arrested for “treason“, Says the press release, a charge that can be worth a life sentence in Ukraine. The Kherson regional prosecutor’s office is in charge of the investigation, according to the same source.
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On Monday, the Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s Office announced that it had found four “torture sitesused by the Russians in Kherson before their forced retreat from the region about ten days ago.
On November 14, the Ukrainian security services (SBU) had, for their part, said that they had arrested a Russian soldier in Kherson “disguised as a civilian“, while fears that collaborators from Moscow are still present incognito in the city remain strong.