Kyiv’s Shevchenkivsky District Court for technical reasons has postponed the hearing of the case against the suspects in the murder of journalist Oles Buzyna. The suspects are Andriy Medvedko and Denys Polyshchuk. Hearings are postponed to August 9 at 10:30 a.m.
As reported, on November 28, 2017, the prosecutor’s office in Kyiv sent this indictment for consideration on the merits to Kyiv’s Shevchenkivsky District Court.
Buzyna was killed in the yard of an apartment block where he lived in Kyiv on April 16, 2015.
Two suspects in the murder – Medvedko and Polischuk – were detained on June 18. Polishchuk, a guard lieutenant of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, had taken part in Donbas war as the commander of the 54th reconnaissance battalion. Medvedko took part in Donbas war as a member of the Interior Ministry’s Kyiv-2 Battalion.
Lawyer Serhiy Voichenko, representing Medvedko and Polischuk, said on June 27, 2017, that the Kyiv Prosecutor’s Office had reported completing the pretrial inquiry into Buzyna’s murder.
The accused are charged pursuant to Clause 12, Part 2, Article 115 (premeditated murder) and Part 1, Article 263 (unlawful possession of firearms) of Ukraine’s Criminal Code. If convicted, the defendants could face from 10 to 15 years in jail or life imprisonment.
