Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), in coordination with the State Bureau of Investigations (SBR), has laid charges in absentia against a former SBU official accused of abducting and torturing local residents in occupied Melitopol, the service announced on Feb. 9. Serhiy Handzha, who has been living in exile in Russia since 2014, is alleged to have […]
Ukraine’s SBU security service has pressed new charges in absentia against Serhiy Handzha, a former high-ranking SBU official under Viktor Yanukovych, the special service reported on Dec. 9. According to the investigation, after the start of the full-scale invasion, he headed the Russian Federal Security Service unit in the temporarily occupied part of Zaporizhzhya Oblast. […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed an order appointing Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov Head of Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration. Source: the order posted on the website of the Office of the President of Ukraine; Yurii Malashko, former Head of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration Quote from the order: “Ivan Fedorov shall be appointed Head of […]
Russian forces have detained three minors in occupied Melitopol, accusing the children of working for Ukraine’s SBU security service, city Mayor Ivan Fedorov said in a Telegram post on Dec. 21. “The [Russian] propagandists spread a story that the boys supposedly organized several terrorist acts,” said Fedorov. Read also: Invaders escalate repression in occupied territories […]