Photo: Zhadan Pyotr Georgievich (Zhadan Petro Georgiyovich)
imprisoned

Personal Information

Birth date
1 мар. 1984 г. (42 years old)
Special circumstances
Ukrainian citizen
Notes
ATO participant from 2016 to 2020, served under contract in Donbass, including in the Mariupol area, gunner on artillery systems

Zhadan Pyotr Georgievich (Zhadan Petro Georgiyovich)

Added: 15 дек. 2025 г.

Case Information

Region of case initiation:
Kherson Oblast
Detention date:
15 июл. 2022 г.
Charges:
Art. 276 CC RF

Case Description

In July 2022, 38-year-old local resident, Ukrainian citizen Pyotr Zhadan, was detained in occupied Kherson. In sources it is not reported exactly, but most likely the man was accused of espionage. According to the Russian investigation, Zhadan served in the separate artillery brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from 2015 to 2021, including in the ATO zone. After the start of the "special military operation, he offered his help to his former commander, Captain of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergey Chenashev, and became a spotter for Ukrainian missiles against the forces of the RF Armed Forces and the NM of the DPR. Since March 2022, he has passed nine coordinates of the location of Russian troops in the city of Kherson to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the security forces, Zhadan was also a member of the 'Right Sector-South' organization, recognized as extremist. The defendant in the case was placed in the SIZO.