Russian Minister of Transport is suspected of a crime for supplying 300 enemy armored vehicles to Crimea

This was reported by Ukraine's Security Service on Telegram.

The investigation established that the high-ranking official contributed to the movement of personnel, weapons and military equipment of the Russian forces to the borders of Ukraine and to the occupied areas. SBU employees documented that between March 26, 2021 and September 4, 2022, Vitaly Savelyev ensured the delivery of almost 300 units of enemy armored vehicles to the illegally annexed peninsula. Among them are Russian tanks, armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, as well as tankers with hundreds of tons of fuel and lubricants.

“It was this technique that the occupying Russian forces used at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, in particular, in combat operations in the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and Donetsk regions,” the report says.

Enemy convoys were transported by railway through the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea, and more than 250 wagons were used for this purpose. Subordinate divisions of the Russian Railways company and the Crimean Railways enterprise were engaged in the transfer.

Savelyev was charged with suspicion under Part 5 of Art. 27, Part 2 of Art. 437 (assistance in planning, preparation, launching and waging an aggressive war) and under part 3 of Art.  332 (illegal transportation of persons across the state border of Ukraine).

These articles are punishable by up to fifteen years of imprisonment.

• On October 24, the president of Motor Sich, Viacheslav Bohuslaev, who is suspected of treason and collaborationism, was arrested by the court.