SBU building in Kyiv. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 29The Security Service of Ukraine stated that it suspects the new governor and mayor of Kherson, who has come under the control of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, of treason, they face up to life imprisonment. ) under the procedural leadership of the Kherson regional prosecutor's office, a suspicion of treason was announced. Traitors face 15 years' imprisonment or life imprisonment with confiscation of property,» the SBU department in the Kherson region says on the social media page. 
The head of the Kherson region believes that Kyiv abandoned the cityThe Russian military, during a special operation to demilitarize Ukraine, took control of the entire Kherson region in the south of the country. Later, in the Kherson region and in the south of the Zaporozhye region, military-civilian administrations began to form, the process of broadcasting Russian television and radio broadcasting was launched, and the population began to use Russian rubles more widely in settlements. Russia began a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
