Kharkiv region resident sentenced to 11 years for helping occupiers rob villager

The Kharkiv Regional Court has found a 29-year-old resident of Lyptsy guilty of aiding and abetting an aggressor state (Part 1, Article 111-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

"He was sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment with deprivation of the right to hold positions in state power, state administration, local self-government bodies related to the performance of organizational, managerial and administrative and economic functions for a period of 11 years," the press service of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office reported.

As it was established, during the occupation of Lyptsy, a local resident accompanied cars with Russian military personnel so that they could better navigate the terrain to fulfill their combat missions against the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In May 2022, the accused, together with Russian military personnel, arrived at a fellow villager and asked the owner to leave the house. When he opened the gate and went outside the fence, one of the occupiers hit him several times in the head. They entered the yard, approached the owner's car, opened it and threw the owner's personal belongings out of the cabin.

When the defendant and the Russian military realized that they would not be given the keys and that they would not be able to start the engine, they went to their car, in which they arrived at the scene, took a cable there, connected it to the victim's car and drove away.

At the court hearing, the defendant pleaded not guilty.

The verdict has not entered into force. The appeal period is ongoing.