In Pavlograd, a traitorous police officer who switched sides to the occupiers has been convicted.

On Wednesday, January 22, the panel of judges of the Pavlograd District Court announced the sentence for the senior sergeant of police from the Svatove District Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine in Luhansk region, who was accused of treason. This was reported on the Pavlograd District Court's Facebook page, as stated by "Vidomo".

According to the prosecution's materials, the 31-year-old police officer, after the temporary occupation of the Svatove district in Luhansk region by Russian military forces in March 2022, began serving in an illegally created structural unit of the "LPR" after an interview with the occupying authorities, known as the "Svatove RAP of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR".

The man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of all his property, deprived of the right to hold positions in law enforcement agencies for three years, and stripped of his previously assigned special rank of senior sergeant of police.

"The judicial proceedings in the criminal case were conducted in the absence of the accused (in absentia) in accordance with part 3 of Article 323 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, as the convicted person is located in a temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk region," the court noted.