Collaborator, lawyer of Medvedchuk and Shariy Rybin sentenced to 10 years in prison

Collaborator Valentin Rybin, who heads the Russian occupation administration on the left-bank Kherson region, was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison with confiscation of property.

This was reported by the press service of the SBU.

Before Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, Rybin was a lawyer for Viktor Medvedchuk, a People’s Deputy from the banned OPZZH party, and propagandist and blogger Anatoly Shariy.

He currently heads the so-called “organizational and legal department of the Ministry of Information Policy of the Kherson region of the Russian Federation,” which coordinates local propagandists.

The SBU noted that after the start of full-scale Russian aggression, Rybin went abroad, where he called on Ukrainians to lay down their arms via social media.

Later, the traitor returned to Ukraine, but to the temporarily occupied part of the Kherson region. There, he headed an occupation body to conduct information sabotage against Ukraine.

After being appointed to this position, he joined the United Russia party, and on its behalf repeatedly called on local residents to support the Russian occupation.

“Based on the evidence collected by investigators of the Security Service, Valentyn Rybin was found guilty under Part 5 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – collaborative activity,” the SBU noted.

It should be noted that pro-Russian blogger and politician Anatoly Shariy was officially sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of all property.

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