{"id":1295688,"date":"2025-09-22T17:23:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/funicular-murder-court-sentences-perpetrator-to-life-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T17:23:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:23:04","slug":"funicular-murder-court-sentences-perpetrator-to-life-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/funicular-murder-court-sentences-perpetrator-to-life-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Funicular murder: court sentences perpetrator to life in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Monday, September 22, the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv sentenced the defendant in the case of the murder of teenager Maksym Materukhin at the funicular station.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was reported by Prosecutor General<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/ruslan_kravchenko_ua\/466\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ruslan Kravchenko<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/suspilne.media\/kyiv\/1120678-sprava-pro-vbivstvo-pidlitka-na-stancii-funikulera-u-kievi-sud-ogolosiv-virok\/?utm_source=copylink&#038;utm_medium=ps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suspilne<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, the court found former State Security Department employee Artem Kosov guilty of premeditated murder for hooligan motives and sentenced him to life imprisonment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;This decision is as close as possible to justice. As close as possible, because the life of a child cannot be compared to any term of imprisonment,&#8221; Kravchenko wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As noted, the prosecution is ready to appeal the decision in the Court of Appeal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, neither Kosov nor the defense commented on the court&#8217;s verdict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, on April 7, 2024, at the capital&#8217;s funicular station <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/netverezyy-spivrobitnyk-udo-napav-na-pidlitka-u-stolychnomu-funikuleri-khlopets-zahynuv-shcho-vidomo-pro-trahediiu\/\">, State Security Department employee Artem Kosov pushed 16-year-old Maksym Materukhin<\/a> . The boy fell onto the glass, received a fatal cut to his neck, and died before the doctors arrived.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, September 22, the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv sentenced the defendant in the case of the murder of teenager Maksym Materukhin at the funicular station. This was reported by Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko and Suspilne . In particular, the court found former State Security Department employee Artem Kosov guilty of premeditated murder for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":862369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1295688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}