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The public reception of the All-Ukrainian Public Organization “Stop Corruption” was approached by the family of a serviceman who, since the war in Donbas and for two years after the start of the full-scale invasion, has been continuously defending the lands of Ukraine and who died in his own apartment from knife wounds. The two-year proceeding continues in the Brovary City Court, and the relatives of the deceased are outraged by the loyalty that the servants of the judiciary, in their view, show to the defendant.
This concerns court case # 361/10784/24, which is currently being heard by the Brovary City Court of Kyiv region and which has significant public resonance given the deceased’s identity — a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Defended his native land for years, and died from stab wounds in a apartment.
The public reception of the All-Ukrainian Public Organization “Stop Corruption” was approached by the nephew of the ATO veteran, who fought in the Ukrainian Defense Forces for two years from the start of the full-scale invasion — Volodymyr Filonenko. The defender of Ukraine died two years ago as a result of two knife wounds inflicted by his stepson. A criminal proceeding was opened on this fact.
As of now, the consideration of the resonant case under number 361/10784/24 stands at almost 2 years. As relatives of the deceased stated in their application, the Brovary City Court of Kyiv region, under Judge Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Skrypka, over time significantly softened the preventive measure for the accused.
The nephew of the deceased, in a telephone conversation, says that the suspect in the commission of an exclusively serious crime, a citizen P., was not placed in a pre-trial detention center from the very beginning of the trial. And the fact that the court limited itself to house arrest as a preventive measure, the relatives consider cynical — given that the defendant dealt two knife blows to the serviceman, and he is charged with intentional murder. “In the case it is clear in black and white. And he, on the day of the murder, stated in a test in the presence that he dealt two knife blows. There are screenshots of messages where he and his brother describe it,” Volodymyr Filonenko says.
How did the court change its trajectory after two years?
According to the murdered serviceman’s nephew, after two years of consideration, the court showed some loyalty to the defendant. The defendant’s defense petitioned to change the preventive measure from round-the-clock home arrest to nighttime.
“I don’t know why the court is dragging this out, when even he himself admitted it all. And now they are trying to do something: he is under round-the-clock home arrest for the second year — and now for the second month he can go out,” Volodymyr comments.
The defendant’s lawyer motivated this by the duration of the proceedings, as well as the fact that the defendant needs to work, since he allegedly has no funds to live on.
Note that according to the case materials, during a conflict in the apartment, the defendant killed a serviceman by delivering two knife blows — to the lung and to the heart, as noted by the respective experts. He is charged with intentional murder.
“As the experts commented, these blows were delivered quickly, by one person. It is not a fact that it was with one knife, but the fact is that it was delivered by one person,” Filonenko says.
However, despite the brutality of the crime and the categorical objections of the prosecutor of the Brovary District Prosecutor’s Office Y.P. Melnychuk, who insisted on keeping the defendant in custody, the presiding judge Oleksandr Skrypka granted the defense’s petition.
According to the court order of 21 August 2026 year, the preventive measure for the defendant was changed to nighttime home arrest only — from 22:00 to 05:00 for 2 months (through 21 October 2026 year inclusive). Thus the accused was allowed to move freely around the city during the day.
“In one word — lawlessness. They pretended to be a family, but in fact behind the eyes… well, I don’t know, they didn’t love their stepfather, used him for their own purposes. Always through him they tried to extract help, money from us. And when they killed him, they ride around fine… They pay for the lawyer, while telling that there is no money. They don’t even go to the funeral, to the cemetery. They live a quiet life and think they are right. I simply cannot stomach this, if one speaks in human terms. How can this be? I simply do not understand them,” Volodymyr says.
The Stop Corruption NGO is not standing aside.
The family of the fallen defender is shocked by the judiciary’s loyalty. The judge’s decision is a “blatant mockery of justice,” because after two years a final verdict has not been issued, and a person accused of murdering a serviceman has been at home from the outset, and now is even transferred only to nighttime arrest.
The family of the deceased veteran calls on the public and anti-corruption media to monitor this process.
The Stop Corruption NGO team sent a request to the court to clarify the grounds for softening the preventive measure for the accused in the commission of a serious crime.
Recall that the Kyiv Appeal Court rejected the claim of Andriy Holovach and overturned the decision of the first instance, instead satisfying the appellate complaints of the defendants, among whom is the co-founder of the Stop Corruption NGO, Roman Bochkala.
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