Parade of traitors. Who controls the occupied Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions
Some of them held high positions - were mayors, deputies, police chiefs, or headed some units in state structures, and some - by simple residents who sought to be noticeable. Most of them have never hidden their sympathy for Russia.
After the organization and holding of the so -called referendum on the entry into Russia "pseudo -people of Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions together with representatives of Donetsk and Lugansk flew to Moscow - to personally ask President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to accept occupied territories" in Russia ".
"Collaborators, as a social group interested in accepting as soon as possible, to protect themselves from their nightmares as the Armed Forces of Ukraine come, and the Russians run and throw them," - said Kherson political scientist Vladimir Molchanov. Focus studied the biographies of Ukrainian citizens who agreed to cooperate with the occupier. For some of them, "management" of occupied territories is the first political experience that may be the last.
66-year-old Vladimir Saldo is called the head of the administration of Kherson region. He is one of the few experienced politicians who agreed to cooperate with the enemy: for ten years he was the mayor of Kherson, elected to the Verkhovna Rada from the Party of Regions, a former member of the pro -Russian party of Putin Viktor Medvedchuk's "Opposition Platform for Life".
However, the political career of the balance was not particularly striking: in the chair of the mayor (2002-2012) was remembered by corruption scandals, in the deputy-a vote for dictatorial laws in January 2014. After leaving Parliament, the balance (and he did not go to the Verkhovna Rada "Our Territory") wanted to return to the mayor's chair, but lost in the elections and became only a deputy of the Kherson City Council. During his regional deputy, he was remembered by two stories.
The first - Salda was arrested in the Dominican Republic, he was accused of abduction. The second - a record appeared on the network, in which a person with a voice -like politician spoke about cooperation with the FSB. In 2019, the balance lost for the second time in the elections to the Parliament-it, now a candidate from the IPP, bypassed the representative of the pro-presidential force "Servant of the People".
After the beginning of the large -scale aggression of the Russian Federation and the occupation of the Kherson region, the balance became part of the "Salvation Committee for Peace and Order", began to cooperate with the Russian military. On April 26, the Russians called it the head of the occupying military-civilian administration of Kherson region. On June 11, the balance was one of the first to receive a Russian passport. It was difficult for the balance.
He was attempted, rumors about his illness, poisoning, treatment in Moscow and even death. But the balance turned out to be alive - in mid -September, Gauleiter returned to Kherson, just on the eve of the pseudo -referendum. At the same time, it cannot be said that the balance for the Russians is the perfect candidate.
In the summer, it was said that his illness - fiction, disappearance of the balance is due to the fact that he stole the money that the occupiers gave for the development of the region. It was said that he wanted to change him to a native of New Kakhovka Kateryna Gubarev (wife of Pavel Gubarev, an active participant in Russian spring 2014 in Donetsk). Earlier, she was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Military-Civil Administration of Kherson Oblast.
Cyril Stramousov was appointed deputy balance, in the past the head of the fish inspection in Genichesk and the founder of the Tavriya-NUS regional information agency. He was known in Kherson as a scandalist - organized an attack on the SBU employee, threatened the journalist, broke into a paid beach with a traumatic gun, spread conspiracy theories after the start of the coronavirus pandemic and organized pro -Russian actions in Kherson, for example, March 1, 2014.
After the appointment, the name Stramousov sounds in the information space no less than the name of his boss. He remembered that he initiated the "census", the ban of the hryvnia, promised "the annexation of Kherson to the Russian Federation in 2023. " "Stremousov is interested in the service of Russia, he is the protector She went through Simferopol. The balance is a man of the Russian Defense Ministry. He was a military adviser in Mongolia in his youth.
Since then, he could be sleeping or consumable. Nova Kakhovka is a city in Kherson region, which is important to the occupiers no less than Kherson himself. For the most part, because there is a Kakhovka hydroelectric power station that supplies water to the Crimea.
Since 2014, the Russians demanded that Ukraine restricted after the occupation, and when the Ukrainian territories were seized in February, the first thing they did - destroyed the temporary dam, a car bridge and the main partition of the channel to release water. The future "Head of the Administration" of New Kakhovka - Vladimir Leontiev took part in all this. Previously, personality is little known.
In the 2000s he worked in the management of Chumak, which produces ketchups, tomato paste, juices, after which he was one of the organizers of the company for the production of building materials. He became known after being released from the captivity of journalist Oleg Baturin - he was abducted in Nova Kakhovka, kept for eight days. When Baturin was at large, he recognized the abductors. One of them was Vladimir Leontiev.
Subsequently, the Office of the Prosecutor General declared suspicion of violation of the laws and customs of war. And with him, Valentina Motuzenko, who is called "a warder from the DNR". In the 1980s, Motuzenko received higher military education and then economic. According to the social networks of fighters, he participated in two conflicts - in the Nagorny Karabakh and the first campaign in Chechnya.
In 2014, he joined the DNR group fighters: first organized the Kalmius Battalion and then became a "adviser to the DNR chairman", he was called "Major General". One of the collaborators Alexander Khodakovsky spoke about Motuzenko as an assistant to the Moscow curator of fighters Alexander Boroday, close to the former assistant of Putin Vladislav Surkov. Therefore, who organized the creation of the so -called republic in Donetsk. In Kakhovka, Pavel Filipchuk became the mayor.
He is known to the locals for his pranks and videos. "Since the 2000s he was in the Party of Regions, in 2020 he ran for the mayor, but lost. Last year he went to Russia, and returned to Russia a week before the war. About peace and harmony, smoothly to the fact that resistance is unconstructive, and as soon as the hostilities began, he wrote that "Kherson will head", - says Focus local resident Olena. A member of the Crimean Branch of "Ukrainian Choice" Viktor Medvedchuk.
He is familiar to the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies as the organizer of pro -Russian actions in the Crimea. The invaders were appointed Yevgeny Balytsky. He is a deputy of the Zaporozhye Regional Council. Balytsky was born in Melitopol, graduated from a university in Tambov, served in the army, took up business. Ennika, then owned one of the first radio stations in the region, was the owner of the Melitopol Brewery.
In 1998 he became a deputy - Zaporizhzhya Regional Council, then worked with the Ministry of Economy, wanted to complete the task of maximum - to become president. Twice he was elected People's Deputy - from the Party of Regions and the Opposition Bloc (he entered after 2014, was a member of Opoblok until February 24, 2022).
All the time he showed pro -Russian views: he celebrated on May 9 with the Kremlin initiative "Immortal Regiment", conducted "public hearings" in the City Council for the protection of the Russian language. After the occupation of the Crimea, the eldest son of Balytsky moved to the peninsula, received Russian citizenship and led a restaurant business, the younger is also in the Crimea, entered the medical academy in Simferopol, although he could study on the mainland.
After the invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, Balytsky became part of the Russian occupation administration of Melitopol. Not immediately. Only on March 4 did he record the video address, they say, it is necessary to "not be provoked" and "not to go to rallies", "not to resist the Russians". At the same time, he said that he believed in "the wisdom of politicians - Vladimir Zelensky and Vladimir Putin.
" On March 12, 2022, Viceremier-Minister-Minister of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk reported that Balytsky cooperates with the occupiers. Moreover, voluntarily provides a relay in Melitopol, Russia-24 on the basis of its TV channel "MTV-Plus". Balytsky is now called one of those who control the activity of a company engaged in the export of grain from the occupied territory of Zaporizhzhya region.
On September 28, 2022, Yevgeny Balytsky became a member of the Russian Party "One Russia". Another collaborator is Vladimir Rogov. Today he calls himself a "member of the Main Council of Administration of Zaporizhzhia Region". Rogov is a person previously widely known in narrow circles.
He is a local so-called political scientist, the owner of the Zaporizhzhia Day site, the leader of the anti-fascist organization "Slavic Guard" (known to the fact that its activist in 2013, under the guise of a nationalist, threw an egg at the President of Poland in Lutsk), and also an entrepreneur with tax debts . He never hid his pro -Russian views, organized pro -Russian actions. For example, in 2013, it was Rogov and his "Slavic Guard" who became the organizers of the local antimaidan.
And when Viktor Yanukovych escaped from Ukraine, horny was proclaimed "governor of Zaporizhzhya region". Thus, a marginal political scientist, though not a governor, but an "expert from Ukraine" at the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies and Forecast on Russian TV channels. He visited Russian TV channels, talking about the "oppression of the Russian language" and the desire to join "Novorossiysk".
His name is mentioned in the letters of Putin's assistant Vladislav Surkov, who in 2016 hackers merged into the network. After the occupation, the Rogov entered the post of "member of the General Council of Administration of Zaporizhzhia region" and became actually a spokesman for the occupied territories. On May 25, 2022, he as a representative of the "local administration" of Zaporozhye stated that "the region wants to be part of Russia.
" In parallel in two large cities of Zaporizhzhya region, which were occupied, mayor also appeared. Galicia's associate of Balytsky Danylchenko proclaimed herself mayor of Melitopol, and entrepreneur Alexander Saulenko considers himself the head of Berdyansk. Danilchenko was previously a deputy of the city council, and was a close associate of the mentioned Balytsky and from business and politics - for example, worked as a helper as a people's deputy.
In 2015, she was elected a deputy of the local council from the Opposition Bloc. Together, they went to the moves of the "immortal regiment" and defended the Russian language. Danilchenko is difficult for the post of "mayor". It is known that the car "Mayor Melitopol" tried to blow up. They say people who were in the car were injured. Danilchenko even wanted to resign. Alexander Saulenko, "Mayor Berdyansk" is a person without public history and political experience.
From open sources it is known that Saulelenko-entrepreneur and head of the local branch of the Union of Left Forces Party (headed by the former head of the State Financial Services Commission Vasyl Volga, who was sentenced for bribery, was released, in 2018, the SBU conducted a search of him in the framework of investigation of Russian activities agents). Currently, the criminal proceedings have been opened against Saulenko.
According to the SBU, it is involved in theft of Ukrainian grain - provided load on the Russian ship. The activity of all the aforementioned citizens of Ukraine, not only Saulelenko, is under the close attention of the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies. They have already been suspected of collaboration, in particular through the organization and conduct of pseudo -referendum. "There are several Russian influence groups in the occupied territories of southern Ukraine," said Vladimir Molchanov.
"The first, as I said, Crimean. The second is from security forces. The return of the balance to Kherson is a kind of victory of Sergei Shoig (Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation - Ed. ). The third is conditional "only Russia". Its representatives have already come to the occupied territories, sent their representatives. Those brought money, "humanitarian aid", controlled their settings. For example, "military commandant" of Kherson region Viktor Bedrik, former commander land.
Also, the FSB conditional group and its representative-Serhiy Kiriyenko, the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, who came to Kherson. ”Russia really sent to the occupied territories of its curators at different times. Lugansk, this is happening now in Kherson and Melitopol.
For example, while the balance was ill or resolved in monetary cases in Moscow, with Russian The capital sent to Kherson the acting chairman of the region Sergei Yeliseyev, a former FSB employee. For this purpose, his business trip was removed from the post of deputy head of the government of the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation.
It was announced that Yeliseyev would be the "head of the region of the region", which was not existed in Ukraine before - the invaders were created by the example of the Russian Federation. Rosmedia said that "this post is one of the highest. " In this "government", together with Yeliseyev, two more citizens of the Russian Federation were given. It is "Deputy Head of Internal Policy" Volodymyr Bespalov, who previously worked as a minister in the Kaliningrad region.
And also the head of the occupation "Ministry of Education and Science" Mikhail Rodikov - a former employee of the district administration in the Moscow region (after the occupation of Crimea from 2015 to 2018, Rodikov was engaged in the educational system of Sevastopol, where "adapted it to Russian realities"). Another deputy Russian in the Kherson region is Igor Pastyukevich, a deputy of the State Duma.
He could become the "head" of the region, but then he was ordered to manage the humanitarian. Despite its humanitarian mission, Kostyukevich also makes political statements, they say, its goal is to "launch the mechanisms of the military-civilian administration". And this is not a complete list of Russian curators in Russia -occupied territories.