Ukrainian authorities have arrested a former senior official from Russia’s occupation administration in Crimea after he traveled to Kyiv, prosecutors and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said on Tuesday. The suspect is a 65-year-old Ukrainian citizen who, according to investigators, served as the head of Crimea’s Republican Committee for Fuel, Energy and Innovation Policy from 2012.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. While authorities did not officially identify the suspect, a law enforcement source told local media Ukrainska Pravda that he is Serhiy Kolobov. According to investigators, the suspect voluntarily joined the occupation administration after Russia seized Crimea in 2014, heading the peninsula’s so-called Ministry of Fuel and Energy. Prosecutors said he helped organize the work of the Russian-installed government and implemented Moscow energy policy in occupied Crimea. These include the Simferopol and Sevastopol combined heat and power plants, the Tavriya Thermal Power Plant, a network of solar and wind power plants, gas pipelines and gas compressor stations, as well as oil depots and oil terminals in Kerch and Feodosia. After leaving the post, he continued working for companies in Crimes controlled by the occupation authorities, according to investigators. This handout photo published by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on June 30, 2026, depicts identity documents, which include Russian internal and international passports, seized during a search of a man suspected of having worked as the head of Crimea's Republican Committee for Fuel, Energy and Innovation Policy from 2012 and later collaborating with Moscow in occupied Crimea.