Court of Appeals imposes suspended sentence on Sternenko

Published May 31, 2021 at 5:23 pm

Odesa activist Serhiy Sternenko attends a hearing in the Shevchenkivskyi District Court in Kyiv on June 16, 2020. The activist has been charged with murder and illegal possession of a weapon after fighting off two attackers in 2018, which resulted in the death of one of the assailants.

Photo by Kostyantyn Chernichkin

Odesa-based Court of Appeals dropped the charges against activist Serhiy Sternenko under the article of assault related to robbery against deputy of Lyman village council Serhiy Scherbych, and imposed a suspended sentence under the article on illegal handling of weapons.

The court announced the relevant ruling on Monday, having considered in essence the appeal against the verdict against the activists Serhiy Sternenko and Ruslan Demchuk in the case of the abduction of the deputy of Kominternivsky district council of Odesa region Serhiy Scherbych.