The Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol has sent an indictment to the court against a Ukrainian citizen, the “director” of a school in Yalta, who was previously detained in Kyiv. She is accused of collaborationism, in particular, the implementation of educational standards Part 3 of Article 111-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine of the aggressor state in an educational institution in occupied Crimea. The woman is currently in custody.
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The autonomy's prosecutor's office announced this on its Facebook page on February 13.
According to the investigation, she worked for a long time in the occupiers' “education” system, and in 2023 agreed to become the “principal” of the Yalta school. The woman approved documentation according to Russian requirements and involved students in propaganda activities.
The accused will await sentencing in custody. She faces up to 3 years in prison.
The department did not specify the name of the accused, but informed sources told Public Crimea on condition of anonymity that it was Svitlana Turlakova.
As a reminder, the director was detained in Kyiv, where she was staying with relatives.
“According to the case materials, the collaborator began cooperating with the enemy back in 2014 after the capture of the Ukrainian peninsula. At that time, the woman was the director of one of the secondary educational institutions in Yalta and actually immediately supported the R*shists. In return, the occupiers assigned her to manage the local school in order to “reformat” the educational process according to the Kremlin's “standards,” the Security Service of Ukraine reported.
As the ARC Prosecutor's Office clarified, in late December 2025, she arrived in the territory controlled by Ukraine, where she was exposed and detained in a rented apartment in Kyiv. During the search, Russian passports and equipment with evidence of cooperation with the occupiers were seized.
In December 2025, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission published a report for the period from June to November 2025, in which it documented the militarization of education and children in the occupied territories of Ukraine, including Crimea.
In September of the same year, the Crimean Reintegration Association reported that the occupiers in Crimea were trying to tighten control in the educational sphere — reducing the number of English lessons in schools and instead introducing the subject of “spiritual and moral culture” and career guidance, starting in the fifth grade.