In May 2024, on her way to work, the security forces kidnapped Natalya Kozhmiatskaya, a 45-year-old tobacco kiosk saleswoman from Nova Khakhovka, and tortured her for several hours. She was returned to her mother's house - but at night they came there again and told Natalia: "Get ready, you will be with us for a long time."
At the same time as Kozhmiatskaya, operatives arrested her friend, 27-year-old electronics store worker Konstantin Semniuk, and her housemate, 31-year-old Pavel Pleshuk. The next day, Palshuk's co-wife, 25-year-old Anastasia Barnatskyi, was added to the list of defendants in the case.
They will spend the next six months in the torture cellar, and their official arrest dates will be November 5th and November 25th.
Yesterday, all the defendants in the case were sentenced to terms of 13 to 14 years in the case of a failed attempt on the life of a former police officer.
The investigation believes that the Novochovs, who carried out the tasks of a person connected to the Chief Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine under the nickname "Roy", prepared an assassination attempt on Maxim Carey, who was appointed as the chief expert of the security department of the Israel Novochovsky administration.
Speaking in court, Natalya Kozhmiatskaya admitted that she contacted "Roy" because he had promised to help ensure that her son, who has been serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine since 2021, would not be sent to the front line. In court she said that after her arrest she was severely beaten, electrocuted and raped. In addition, the FSB officers threatened to harm her loved ones if she did not confess to what was required of her. She later denied many of her earlier confessions.
After his arrest, Pavel Pleshuk was beaten for several days in an unknown place. He admitted that he started fabricating evidence so that "they would stop shocking him with a rubber band."
Konstantin Semniuk recalled how masked men "repeatedly came to the basement where they were kept until official arrest" and demanded certain answers to their questions under threat of torture.