This overview was updated on 30 May 2022. Russia began an all-out invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, carrying out extensive military operations marked by war crimes and other violations of international humanitarian law. Using indiscriminate weapons such as cluster munitions in populated...

AI has been informed by the Chief Psychiatrist of the Ukraine that the above-named is at home in Kiev, living with his sister and is receiving medical care and a financial allowance.

An unofficial source reports that Stanislav Minin was sentenced to death by the Kharkov Regional Court in the Ukraine on 26 October 1990. He had been convicted of murder and rape. The Supreme Court of the Ukraine is said to have left the sentence unchanged at an appeal hearing and the Presidium of...

Amnesty International is concerned that V. Dzyabura, A. Maevsky and V. Kozachka may face imminent execution. On 29 October the Soviet daily newspaper Izvestiya reported that these three men were sentenced to death on 11 June 1991 by a military tribunal in the Odessa military district in the...

An unofficial source in the USSR reports that Aleksandr Shovkoplyas was sentenced to death by Dnepropetrovsk Regional Court in the Ukraine on 31 October 1990. He had been convicted of murder and assault with attempt to rob. The court is said to have referred the case for investigation three times...

An unofficial source reports that Vadim Petrenko was sentenced to death on 22 May 1991 by a court in the Ukraine. The exact place and the nature of the charges are not known. The sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court of the Ukraine on 6 June 1991. A petition for clemency to the President...

An unofficial source reports that Yevgeny Berestovsky was sentenced to death on 26 April 1991 by the regional court in Dnepropetrovsk. He had been convicted of premeditated murder under aggravating circumstances (Article 93 of the Criminal Code). The Ukrainian Supreme Court upheld the sentence on...

An unofficial source reports that Leonid Kupriyanov was sentenced to death on 29 November 1990 by the city court in Kiev. He had been convicted, with three others, of premeditated murder under aggravating circumstances, assault with intent to rob, and concealment of a crime. The Ukrainian Supreme...

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Vladimir Gurtovoy, aged 22, was reportedly found guilty of murder by a court in Dnepropetrovsk in November 1991 and sentenced to death. AI is concerned about allegations that the court did not give due consideration to Vladimir Gurtovoy’s claim not to have initiated the fatal quarrel or to...

Viktor Gorokhov, a young farm worker from southern Ukraine, was reportedly sentenced to death by a court in the Ukraine; he had been convicted of the premeditated murder under aggravating circumstances of his parents-in-law. An unofficial source reports that he gave himself up voluntarily to the...

Unofficial sources have informed AI that the President of Ukraine has turned down the petition for clemency lodged by Viktor Petrovich Gorokhov, a young farm worker from southern Ukraine who was convicted of the murder of his parents-in-law. He reportedly gave himself up after the murders and was...

Andrey Chikatilo, aged 57 and of Ukrainian nationality, was sentenced to death on 15 October 1992 by Rostov Regional Court. He had been found guilty of murdering 52 people in southern Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan between 1978 and 1990. Psychiatric examinations conducted both before and during the...