Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoiskyi, owner of the 1+1 Media Group, who is in custody in the case of the misappropriation of PrivatBank's funds, has transferred his corporate rights in the media holding company to be managed by the company's staff represented by the current Director General, Yaroslav Pakholchuk.
With the war in Ukraine the targeting of healthcare settings has once again come under the spotlight. Madlen Davies reports on the efforts to gather evidence of war crimes and why so few incidents have been successfully prosecuted
Oleh Tkachenko was delivering bread when he heard an explosion. He works as a pastor in a Baptist church in Vuhledar, a city in the southern Donetsk Oblast region of Ukraine. He ran to the city’s hospital immediately and saw its windows were shattered, with three people lying in the street and two on the hospital’s steps. One woman was already dead. He helped a mother struggling with a pram to a bomb shelter. On the way he saw two ambulances and the first aid station completely burnt. There were hundreds of pieces of shrapnel everywhere. “At first I was puzzled,” he said. “I couldn’t understand what it was but then I saw the head of the rocket and I saw right away it was a cluster munition.” The 24 February attack killed four civilians and inju
The Court of Appeal upheld the preventive measure towards oligarch Ihor Kolomoiskyi - he will remain in custody with an alternative of making bail of UAH 3.89 billion (about US$108.3 million). Source: Hromadske from the courtroom Details: During the hearing, Kolomoiskyi's lawyers stated that they considered the preventive measure decided by the court previously to be illegal and unreasonable, and asked to cancel the detention.
The Kyiv Court of Appeal ruled on 25 September that the pre-trial restriction for oligarch Ihor Kolomoiskyi would remain unchanged. Source: the court hearing Kolomoiskyi, who has been served with three notices of suspicion with respect to the withdrawal of billions of hryvnias from the Ukrainian bank PrivatBank, has been in custody since 3 September.