The Ternopil City District Court handed down a verdict against the former starosta of Zaozerne in the Kherson region, Oleksandra Pshenychna, who accommodated Russian military personnel.
This is stated in the relevant court verdict.
It is known that in the fall of 2022 Pshenychna voluntarily assumed the illegal position of head of the so‑called Zaozerne territorial administration of the occupying Kakhovka administration.
In that position the woman encouraged locals to cooperate with the Russians, recruited staff to work in the illegal administration, organized the housing of Russian military personnel, and so on.
Moreover, Oleksandra Pshenychna pointed out vacant houses in Zaozerne to Russian servicemen, and at the beginning of 2023 she arranged the transportation of children from Zaozerne and Olhivka to a Russia-controlled school in Tavrychanka.
She was found guilty of collaborationist activity (Part 5 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
The court sentenced Pshenychna to 10 years of imprisonment with confiscation of all property. She was also deprived for 15 years of the right to hold positions in state bodies, local self-government, law enforcement agencies, and structures that provide public services.
Note that before the full-scale invasion Pshenychna worked for a long time in leadership positions in the former Zaozerne Village Council: first as its secretary, and then as the village head. After the village joined the Tavrychanka community in 2016, she worked there as the starosta.