Military counterintelligence and Security Service investigators have gathered evidence against five more traitors who fought against the Defense Forces in eastern Ukraine. This was reported by the press service of the Security Service of Ukraine, according to UNN.
Being part of the occupation groups of the Russian Federation, the perpetrators were captured by Ukrainian defenders during the fighting in Donetsk region in early July this year. One of the detainees is a rifleman from the 4th separate motorized rifle brigade of the Russian army. His entire platoon was destroyed during the fighting for Chasiv Yar,
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It is noted that after the clash, the traitor hid for two weeks in the surrounding forests, where he was later detained by Ukrainian defenders. The attacker was a resident of the temporarily occupied village of Verkhnoharasymivka in Luhansk region, who voluntarily joined the occupiers on February 24, 2022.
Another traitor is a former resident of Odesa region. On the eve of the full-scale war, the man left for Russia, and after it began, he arrived at the military enlistment office in Moscow region and signed a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense. After a short training at the training grounds, he was sent to storm the positions of the Ukrainian armed forces in the siverskyi direction. There he was captured near Verkhnekamianske.
Another defendant is a resident of the temporarily occupied part of Donetsk region. Being a member of the occupation unit "Storm-Z", he participated in the "meat" assaults on Krasnohorivka.Two more traitors are from Luhansk region. One of them went to Magadan at the beginning of the full-scale war, where he later "mobilized" to the 39th separate motorized rifle brigade of the Russian armed forces. During the fighting in the area of Vuhledar, he was captured.
SBU investigators have served all the detainees suspicion notices under two articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
- paras. 1, 2 Art. 111 (high treason);
- ч. 7 of Art. 111-1 (voluntary participation of a citizen of Ukraine in illegal armed or paramilitary groups created in the temporarily occupied territory and/or in the armed groups of the aggressor state).
The offenders face life imprisonment.