The Velykooleksandrivskyi District Court found Yevheniia Rychkovska guilty of collaborationism; she conducted a pseudo-referendum in the village of Odradokamyanka of the Tyahynska community in Kherson region.
The verdict is published on the website of the Unified State Register of Court Decisions.
The court found that in September 2022 Rychkovska voluntarily agreed to cooperate with the occupation administration and took part in organizing and holding an illegal referendum in Kherson region.
According to the case materials, Rychkovska became a member of the so‑called precinct election commission No. 804 and during the pseudo-referendum she went around private yards in the village of Odradokamyanka to urge locals to vote.
Questioned witnesses noted that the organizers of the referendum in the village were Rychkovska and two other local residents. Rychkovska personally went door to door with voter lists, and her accomplice carried a portable ballot box. According to eyewitnesses, all the “members of the commission” walked around the village accompanied by two or three armed Russian servicemen in balaclavas.
Also, one of the witnesses said that Yevheniia Rychkovska, even before the so‑called voting, repeatedly offered her to cooperate with the occupation authorities, citing her work experience. In addition, during the occupation she drove around the village by car and told residents that “it would be good under Russia”.
The court convicted Yevheniia Rychkovska in absentia under part 5 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. She was sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment with confiscation of property.
Earlier it was reported that a former employee of the Henichesk District Court Galyna Tsyba was sentenced to 15 years for collaborationism.