Court Extends Arrest of One of the Killers of NAU Student by Two Months

The Solomianskyi District Court held the second hearing in the case of the brutal murder of an NAU student.

The court extended the pretrial detention of Andriy Dudka, charged with the murder of a student in a Kyiv pub, by two months.

Artem Ius, a third-year student at the National Aviation University, was killed on April 6 at the City Pub bar in the Shuliavka district of the capital. Ius, who had suffered some two dozen stab wounds, was taken to hospital, but died there without regaining consciousness.

The participants in the attack on the young student were soon identified — they turned out to be activists of the All-Ukrainian public organization “Sokil”.

One of them ended up in the dock: Andriy Dudka, who had been hiding from police in Volyn region, told the court in May that he acted in self-defense and admitted stabbing Ius “in the thigh and buttocks area so as not to hit vital organs.” The second suspect is Bohdan Shevchenko.

Artem Ius’s brother Ihor disagreed with the investigation on social media and insisted it was a group murder: “There must be justice. In Poland, a life sentence would have been handed down long ago for a group and extremely brutal murder.”