SBI served notice of suspicion to head of court from Cherkasy region on justifying russian armed invasion of Ukraine (VIDEO)

Employees of the Prosecutor General's Office and the State Bureau of Investigation under the SSU operational support served a notice of suspicion to the head of a court in one of the districts of Cherkasy region, who justified the armed aggression of the russian federation against Ukraine.

It was established that after russia's full-scale armed invasion, the judge repeatedly justified the temporary occupation of part of Ukraine's territory during personal conversations with colleagues and friends.

She referred to the occupied territories of Ukraine as "liberated" and called the occupiers "ours" and declared the Autonomous Republic of Crimea part of russia. The official has repeatedly visited the temporarily occupied Crimea, and even celebrated the new year 2023 on the peninsula.

She justified russia's armed aggression against Ukraine by describing it as a step motivated by the strategic importance of Crimea and accused the armed Forces of unjustified aggression against civilian Ukrainians.

In her discussion of russian missile attacks on Ukrainian settlements, the judge  interpreted the attacks on civilian buildings as a way for russia to save money on expensive precision missiles, which is why they hit civilians, and stressed that, in particular, Mariupol was shelled by the Ukrainian military, not the russian military.

She claimed that Ukrainian snipers were shooting at people, and the Ukrainian army used the population as a 'human shield', not letting them out of the city, evicting them from their own apartments, and throwing grenades into their basements for speaking in Russian.

The official denied abducting and taking children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, etc.

The judge is suspected of justifying the armed aggression of the russian federation against Ukraine, which began in 2014, and recognising the occupation of part of the territory of Ukraine as lawful, committed by an official (part 3 of article 436-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

The sanction of the article provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to 8 years with confiscation of property.

Procedural control is carried out by the Office of the Prosecutor General.