Sasha Markitan, aged 21, Vitaly Alkhimov, aged 23, Sergey Skarabagatov, aged 24, Aleksey Vedmedenko, aged 20: Amnesty International has learned that Aleksey Vedmedenko was executed on 5 August 1996. Ukraine, by joining the Council of Europe had committed itself to imposing an immediate moratorium on executions and abolishing the death penalty.
