Murder on the Capital Funiculatory: Before the sentence was adopted by the suspect “repented”

The court in the murder on the capital’s funicular. Photo of OGP

In the case of the murder of 15-year-old Maxim Materukhin, the stage of the parties’ debate ended at the Kyiv cablemary, the court was removed to the conference room for the sentence.

Source: Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko on social networks

Direct Language: “We heard the last word of the accused. His” sincere “repentance was performed today – after all months of objections, distortions of facts and attempts to avoid responsibility. It is obvious to me: this is not a repentance, but another attempt to manipulate.

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The prosecution party presented all the evidence, testimony of witnesses, the results of the examinations that prove: Maxim’s death was not by chance, but a consequence of the intentional actions of the accused. We insist on a sentence in the form of life imprisonment. ”

Details: Kravchenko recalled that the trial was difficult and long: parents and relatives were waiting for the case to move out of place.

“And today we were approaching the moment when the point is set,” the Prosecutor General added.

He reported that the debate stage was completed, the judges were released to the conference room.

Prehistory:

• On April 7, 2024, a minor guy was killed at a funicular station because of a deadly neck. On the same day, the State Bureau of Investigation opened criminal proceedings on the death of a young man.
• Law enforcement officers reported suspicion of a deliberate murder of a discharged employee of the State Security Department, who pushed a teenager at the Kiev Funiculator station.
• On April 9, Tatiana Sapyan, the State Bureau of Investigation Bureau, reported on the national telephone that the accused of murder of a teenager did not admit her guilt, examination showed that he was drinking at the time of the crime.
• On August 14, 2025, Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko announced that he would apply to the Bar Qualification and Disciplinary Commission to file a complaint against the suspect Artem Kosovo’s suspect in the murder of 10-grader Maxim Materukhin at the Kiev Funiculator station.
• Prosecutors demand to assign a coin life imprisonment.