“The court granted the request of the prosecutor’s office and ordered Kedruk to be detained for 60 days (until January 30 inclusive) without the right to bail.”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to a Radio Liberty correspondent, Yurii Bondarenko is from Kharkiv, a veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Since 2015, he participated in hostilities in Donbas for almost a year, and was later released to the reserve due to his health. Then he served as a signalman. In June 2025, due to the deterioration of his health, he was transferred to the Galicia-Frankivsk ORTCC and SP.
The prosecutor’s office announced the day before that on the evening of December 3, during the document check in Lviv, a conflict arose between a 30-year-old man from Lviv and military personnel of the TCC. According to the OGP, the man whose documents were being checked stabbed Yury Bondarenko in the leg, and he died of the wound in the hospital on the morning of December 4.
Meanwhile, the Frankiv District Court of Lviv on December 5 chose a preventive measure for the suspect in the attack – Hryhoriy Kedruk. The court granted the request of the prosecutor’s office and ordered Kedruk to be detained for 60 days (until January 30 inclusive) without the right to bail.
The defense asked for house arrest, saying the defendant has no plans to run away.
At the hearing, the suspect gave his version of what happened, saying that on the evening of December 3, he was stopped by an alert group to check the documents he had provided and also summoned a lawyer. Then, according to the suspect, a bus drove up to the place, from which several people in military uniform got out and, according to him, used tear gas against him, knocked him to the ground and started beating him. “The next thing I remember is opening the door to my house and trying to wash the tear gas off my face,” the suspect said.
He admitted that the knife that injured the soldier belonged to him. When asked by the investigator whether he used a knife during the events of December 3, Kedruk replied: “Judging by the fact that my fingers are cut and what you say, I must have used it.”
As reported the day before in the OGP, the case is being investigated under the article about “deliberate grievous bodily harm, caused in connection with the performance of official duties, which caused the death of the victim.”
After the start of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, martial law was introduced and general mobilization was announced. Reports of scandals and conflicts between TCC employees and citizens on the streets of towns and villages regularly appear in the Ukrainian information space. Negative information about the mobilization spreads quickly through social networks.
The Ukrainian military and government officials claim that this is the result of the informational and psychological operations of the Russian Federation.