The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported a new suspicion to leader of the terrorist organization Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) Leonid Pasechnik in connection with the forced mobilization of residents of Russia-occupied Luhansk region for the war against Ukraine.

"The Security Service has documented new crimes by collaborator Leonid Pasechnik, head of the occupation administration of the terrorist organization 'LPR.' The perpetrator organized the forced recruitment of residents of the temporarily occupied part of Luhansk region to the occupation groups of the Russian Southern Military District," the Ukrainian special service reported on its Telegram channel on Friday.

According to the SBU, since February 19, 2022, Pasechnik signed several orders to "introduce martial law" and "mobilize" in the temporarily occupied part of the region. "This became the formal basis for the Russians to forcibly conscript almost 80% of workers at local enterprises to the war against Ukraine," the report states.

First of all, as the SBU explains, we are talking about men aged 18 and older, who after a short training at training grounds are sent to "meat assaults" on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the eastern front.

"According to available data, more than 70% of those mobilized died on the front lines in the first months of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation," the report notes.

Based on the evidence collected, the Security Service investigators informed Pasechnik of a new suspicion under Part 2 of Article 28, Part 1 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (violations of the laws and customs of war committed by prior conspiracy by a group of persons).

The special service recalls that in early July of this year, based on SBU materials, the leader of the "LPR" was sentenced in absentia to 12 years in prison for collaborationism and encroachment on the territorial integrity of Ukraine.