Explore documented criminal cases from Ukraine with source-backed chronology, verified legal-status labels and a victim-aware editorial approach. Historical files preserve the jurisdiction in force at the time, including crimes committed in the Ukrainian SSR before Ukraine became independent in 1991.
A case appears under Solved / Adjudicated only when reliable records support a sufficiently definitive investigative or legal outcome. Arrest, accusation, confession or a press label alone is not enough. Cases with unresolved responsibility, open investigations or materially incomplete outcomes belong under Unsolved / Partial.
Taras Poznyakov disappeared during an April 2016 rideshare journey from Lviv to Kyiv. Dmytro Holub was convicted of his murder and related offenses; Ukraine's Supreme Court left the life sentence in force in 2021.
Open case file →Former National Bank chairman Vadym Hetman was assassinated in Kyiv in 1998. Serhiy Kulev was later sentenced to life imprisonment, while the ordering party remains officially unresolved.
Open case file →Lawyer Yuriy Grabovskyi disappeared in March 2016 and was later found dead. A Kyiv court convicted Artem Yakovenko and Maksym Chmilov in 2022, imposing life imprisonment and a 15-year term.
Open case file →Maksym Kryvosh held 13 people hostage on a bus in Lutsk in July 2020. All were released alive; he was convicted in 2022 and sentenced to 13 years in prison.
Open case file →TV journalist Ihor Aleksandrov died after a 2001 attack in Sloviansk. Five men were convicted in 2006, after an earlier wrongful prosecution that later produced separate falsification convictions.
Open case file →Lawyer and rights advocate Iryna Nozdrovska disappeared in December 2017. Yuriy Rossoshansky was convicted of her murder in 2022 and the 15-year sentence was upheld on appeal in 2023.
Open case file →A Kyiv court sentenced an Uzbek national to life imprisonment in 2025 after convicting him of 11 murders committed from 2018 to 2024, attempted murder and robbery offenses.
Open case file →The 1987 Kyiv school poisoning exposed a wider thallium case. Tamara Ivanyutina was convicted and sentenced to death; archival documentation places her execution in December 1990.
Open case file →Former police officer Serhiy Dovzhenko was convicted in 2003 of 17 murders in Mariupol and sentenced to life imprisonment; later 19-killing claims remain separate from the court-proved count.
Open case file →Former police investigator Serhiy Tkach received a life sentence in 2008 after a decades-long murder series; the case also exposed multiple wrongful convictions.
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Ukrainian courts adjudicated a 21-murder series from 2007. Ihor Supruniuk and Viktor Saienko received life sentences; a third defendant was convicted of robbery, not murder.
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Oksana Makar died after a March 2012 attack in Mykolayiv. Three men were convicted; the appellate court left their life, 15-year and 14-year sentences unchanged.
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Four former police officers were convicted for the 2000 abduction and murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze; higher-level ordering responsibility remains unresolved.
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A Ukrainian court convicted Anatoly Onoprienko of 52 murders committed between 1989 and 1996. He was sentenced to death in 1999; the punishment was later replaced by life imprisonment.
Open case file →Nineteen-year-old student Ihor Indylo died in a Kyiv police station in May 2010 from a skull fracture and intracranial bleeding. Domestic proceedings did not establish who caused the fatal injury; in 2025 the European Court of Human Rights found substantive and procedural violations of Articles 2 and 3.
Open case file →Journalist and civic activist Vasyl Serhiyenko was abducted in April 2014 and found dead the next day. Multiple defendants face prolonged proceedings, while authorities continue to investigate who ordered the crime.
Open case file →Journalist and writer Oles Buzyna was shot dead outside his Kyiv home in April 2015. Two men were charged, but prolonged proceedings had not produced a final judgment when the ECtHR ruled on the case in 2026.
Open case file →Kharkiv judge Volodymyr Trofymov, his wife, their son and the son's partner were murdered in December 2012. A massive investigation and later leads have not produced judicially established perpetrators.
Open case file →Linguist and former MP Iryna Farion was fatally shot in Lviv in July 2024. Viacheslav Zinchenko was arrested and put on trial, but no verdict had been reached by late August 2026.
Open case file →Investigative journalist Vadym Komarov died after a May 2019 attack in Cherkasy. Years of police work have not publicly identified or charged the person or people responsible for his murder.
Open case file →Euromaidan activist Yuriy Verbytsky was abducted with Ihor Lutsenko in January 2014 and later found dead. Multiple participants have been convicted for parts of the kidnapping and torture, but complete individual responsibility for his death remains unresolved.
Open case file →Seven men were killed near Novoselytsia in May 2020. Anatoliy Zakharenko was charged, but died before a verdict; the criminal proceeding was closed in January 2025.
Open case file →Journalist Pavel Sheremet was killed by a car bomb in Kyiv in 2016. A disputed prosecution against three defendants later stalled, with no final conviction and no proven ordering party by 2026.
Open case file →Five participants in the 2018 fatal attack were convicted in 2019. Two alleged higher-level organizers received 10-year sentences in 2023, but their appeals remained unresolved in 2026.
Open case file →The Onoprienko and Ivanyutina files preserve the political context in force at the time. Ivanyutina's crimes and prosecution occurred in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic within the USSR; Onoprienko's series spans that period and independent Ukraine. The archive keeps those distinctions visible instead of flattening the timeline.
Case pages prioritize court outcomes, public-service or institutional records, established news agencies and reputable journalism. Where sources disagree on a minor date or procedural detail, the page avoids overstating precision and anchors the classification to facts that are consistently documented.