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“They slipped in drugs”: police uncover three servicemen who staged a provocation against Shyshyn
Law enforcement officers have uncovered three servicemen of a separate assault unit who planted drugs on former commander of a battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Shyshyn, and handed him over to the police. Currently all three suspects have been informed of suspicion; they face detention.
According to Maksym Tsutskyridze, deputy head of the National Police of Ukraine, the suspects turned out to be former law enforcement officers who are currently serving in one of the separate assault units.
According to the investigation, the suspects for a long time illegally monitored the ex-commander of a battalion of one of the separate mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and collected confidential information about him.
Note that the official statement does not name the ex-commander, but given the case details, it is evidently Oleksandr Shyshyn. He recently stated that he was “slipped drugs.”
The perpetrators planned the provocation to discredit the serviceman and bring him to criminal liability using artificially created evidence.
In the night from 27 to 28 August 2026 year, the suspects broke into the victim’s car parked near his home and hid packets of drugs and psychoactive substances inside. Immediately after that they informed the police and the Military Police about the presence of prohibited substances in the vehicle.
When the former commander sat in the car and headed off to do errands, the suspects continued to accompany him and passed operational information about the vehicle’s movements to law enforcement. As a result, police in Kharkiv stopped the vehicle and, during inspection, found the pre-planted substances.
For me, it is fundamentally important that no one has any doubt: the police will not hide or overlook unlawful actions of any persons, regardless of their status or past, stated Maksym Tsutskyridze.
Currently three servicemen have been informed of suspicion for illegal entry into a dwelling, violation of privacy, sale of drugs, and incitement to hold someone innocently liable. Prosecutors of the Office of the Prosecutor General are preparing a motion to choose a preventive measure in the form of detention for the suspects.
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