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ATTEMPTED MURDERS OF ATTORNEYS

Olena Harmash
attorney
In April 2016 in Kharkiv, unidentified persons fired at the roof of the attorney’s home using a
grenade launcher, where she lived with her family.

Serhii Kozachenko
attorney
In July 2016, the attorney was shot dead by unidentified
persons in Kyiv, and a year before that two military
grenades were thrown at his yard. The attorney was
forced to go on hunger strike due to no investigation of
these circumstances by the prosecutor's office and the
National Police. However, the perpetrators of the crime
were neither found nor punished.

Vitaliy Serdyuk
attorney of the former president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych
In Kyiv, unidentified persons shot at the attorney’s car windscreen.

Olha Prosyanyuk
attorney of the former president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych
The attorney was shot at in Kyiv, but the bullet got into a car that was
passing by at that very moment.

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