Former SBU chief under the Yanukovych administration, Oleksandr Yakymenko, will be tried for treason for his involvement in organizing repressions in the occupied part of the Kherson region. In 2014, Yakymenko fled to Russia and was appointed head of the punitive body of the Kherson region by the occupiers. Yakymenko is accused of organizing mass persecution, abductions, and torture, including electric shocks. He will be tried under four articles of the Criminal Code and is currently wanted along with eight other accomplices.