Ukrainian investigators said on Tuesday that they had arrested for “treason” a head of Russian remand centers in Kherson (south), a city liberated on November 11 after more than eight months of occupation by Moscow troops.
“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 sentences,” he said. the Ukrainian State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) said in a statement.
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 the employees of the SBU,” the SBI said in its statement.
The suspect was thus arrested for “treason”, specifies the press release, a charge which 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.
On Monday, the Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s Office announced that it had found four “torture sites” used by the Russians in Kherson before their forced retreat from the region ten days ago.
On November 14, the Ukrainian security services (SBU), for their part, said they had arrested a Russian soldier in Kherson “disguised as civilians”, while fears that Moscow collaborators are still present incognito in the city remain strong. .