People's Artist of Ukraine sentenced to 10 years in prison for collaboration

People's Artist of Ukraine, who collaborated with the enemy in occupied Kherson, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for collaboration. This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General, UNN reports.

Prosecutors of the Rivne Regional Prosecutor's Office proved in court the guilt of the People's Artist of Ukraine, who was charged with collaboration (Part 6 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). She was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison with disqualification to hold positions in the cultural sector for 12 years and confiscation of property,

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Prosecutors proved that a resident of Kherson, who had worked in a local theater for more than 20 years and received the title of People's Artist of Ukraine, went to work with the enemy after the city was occupied.

It is noted that at first she was appointed director of two music schools, and later she also headed the so-called Kherson Regional Russian Academic Music and Drama Theater in Henichesk.

For her part, the artist is engaged in propaganda activities and actively participates in "cultural" events organized by the enemy. In particular, she performed with the "choir of the National Guard of the Russian Federation" during a concert dedicated to the "accession of new territories" of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions to the Russian Federation.

Since the convict is currently on the territory not controlled by Ukraine, the term of the main sentence will be counted from the moment of her detention.

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