Indictments concerning three people in the case over the 2025 attack on volunteer Serhii Sternenko have been sent to court, where proceedings are under way. That is a meaningful move from investigation to judicial scrutiny of the authorities’ account, but it is not a finding of guilt.
In a response to Ukrainska Pravda, the Security Service of Ukraine said that indictments against all three people it links to organising and carrying out the attack were filed with the court in 2026. The SBU said investigators identified an alleged attacker and two other people it considers involved.
The report also sets out the SBU’s account of alleged assistance connected to the attack. One man is said to have collected information about Sternenko’s locations and passed it to a Russian handler, while an acquaintance described as a National Police inspector allegedly copied vehicle-movement data from Kyiv’s Safe City surveillance system. Those are investigative allegations for the court to assess.
Sternenko said he was attacked and injured on 1 May 2025. The new procedural stage matters because it moves the case beyond public announcements of detentions and suspicions. In a case involving a prominent volunteer, accountability depends not only on identifying suspects but on testing the evidence through a lawful court process.
The supplied report contains no response from the defendants or their lawyers, and gives no court name, case number or hearing schedule. The supported conclusion is therefore limited but significant: the case involving three defendants is before a court, which must decide how the evidence and allegations stand.
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- Українська правда · Source date: 2026-11-13
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