UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Dec 5 – The court found guilty a resident of the Kupiansk district who was preparing schools in the occupied territories for the educational process according to Russian standards. She was sentenced to five years in prison, said SBU (Ukraine’s security service agency) spokesman Vladyslav Abdula on his Facebook page. 

Since the start of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, more than 1,000 people in the Kharkiv Oblast have received a notice of suspicion in proceedings over treason, collaboration, and dissemination of information about the movement of the Armed Forces.

Vladyslav Abdula said the woman also provided schools in the Kupiansk district with Russian textbooks and curriculum guides. 

According to the investigation, she recruited employees of educational institutions who agreed to cooperate with the Russians during the occupation and conducted anti-Ukrainian agitation and propaganda among them.

The woman organized trips for her employees, who had also agreed to cooperate with the Russian Federation, to attend retraining courses in Russia “for further implementation of Russian education standards in the territory of Kupiansk district of Kharkiv region,” the SBU said. 

The SBU detained the woman in February 2023. Now, the court has found her guilty of collaboration.

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