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29 September 2026 the Kyiv District Administrative Court opened proceedings in case No. 320/37380/26 on the claim of veteran worker Bohdan Tsimeyko against the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. The plaintiff seeks to declare invalid the Government resolution of 03.08.2011 No. 845, which approved the Procedure for enforcing decisions to collect funds from the state and local budgets or from debtors. The outcome of this case will determine the fate of thousands of Ukrainians who have been waiting for years, and sometimes decades, for the state to satisfy judgments rendered on behalf of Ukraine.
The order was issued by Judge Maryna Bilonozhenko, who found the submitted materials sufficient to accept the statement of claim for consideration. For the initiator of the process, the founder of the NGO “Protection of the Ukrainian People,” this decision is of principal importance.
“This is a landmark and exceptional event for Ukraine. We are finally challenging not an individual instance of non-enforcement, but the very system by which hundreds of thousands of people received court judgments but did not receive the money,” emphasizes Bohdan Tsimeyko.
What is the essence of the dispute?
As StopKor already reported in the piece “79 years of waiting: how the state acknowledged a debt but is in no hurry to pay,” Article 25 of the Budget Code provides for undisputed write-off of funds from the budget on the basis of a court decision. Instead, resolution No. 845 tied that write-off to a specific budget program, i.e., to an amount that is appropriated in the state budget each year. In 2026 the program code KPIVK 3504040 provides only 100 million UAH, while the real need is about 7,9 billion UAH. The Treasury explains its position by saying it acts within the limits of resolution No. 845 and the law on the state budget.
The scale of the problem is confirmed by data from the State Treasury Service itself: as of 01.07.2026 only under KPIVK 3504040 there were 274 945 enforcement documents on record totaling 8,91 billion UAH. Another 1 070 judgments for 376,75 million UAH are awaiting payment under the program for compensation of damage caused by unlawful actions of investigative bodies, the prosecutor’s office, and the courts.
Behind each document — a person
Behind the dry numbers are employees who for years have not been paid awarded wages, citizens who suffered from unlawful criminal prosecution, entrepreneurs who won cases against the state. The European Court of Human Rights in the pilot judgments “Yurii Mykolaiovych Ivanov v. Ukraine” and “Burmych and Others v. Ukraine” emphasized that a lack of budgetary funds cannot justify failure to enforce a court decision. The Constitutional Court of Ukraine in decision No. 5-rp/2013 likewise stated that the right to judicial protection becomes illusory if a final court decision remains unenforced.
“If we win, a 79-year queue for the enforcement of more than 300 thousand enforcement documents totaling more than 9 billion hryvnias will disappear. I am convinced that this queue was artificially created by the leadership of the Treasury, which was indifferent both to hundreds of ECHR decisions and to the promises Ukraine made to the European Union and international partners,” says Bohdan Tsimeyko.
From Bastionna Street to the courtroom
The lawsuit is a continuation of a years-long confrontation between activists and the State Treasury. In March 2026 the Treasury building on Bastionna Street was fenced with metal barriers and a turnstile, and citizens with enforcement orders were offered to leave documents in a mailbox. StopKor previously recounted this and the decade-long history of appeals to the authorities in the publication “The ‘Iron Curtain’ from Justice.”
“It’s a pity that the real Ukrainian Yurii Karmazin is no longer with us. In 2016 we stood with him outside the walls of the Treasury on Bastionna, 6, demanding enforcement of court decisions,” recalls Bohdan Tsimeyko.
What’s next?
Pursuant to Article 264 of the Code of Administrative Procedure of Ukraine, in cases challenging normative legal acts the court obliges the defendant to publish a notice of the opening of proceedings, so everyone whose interests are affected should learn about the hearing. If the court declares resolution No. 845 invalid, the Government will have to revise the mechanism for enforcing decisions to recover funds from the state budget.
“The law is strict, but it is the law. Join us, brothers and sisters! Glory to Ukraine!” urges Bohdan Tsimeyko.
StopKor will continue to monitor the progress of the case.
Recall that on 22 September 2026 the head of the NGO “Protection of the Ukrainian People,” Bohdan Tsimeyko, took part in a meeting of the permanent commission of the Kyiv City Council on property and regulatory policy, where among other items the issue of bringing the Rules of Improvement of the city of Kyiv into compliance with Ukrainian legislation was considered.
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