CASE OF VELICHKO AGAINST UKRAINE AND 7 OTHER CASES

Resolution CM/ResDH(2026)10 Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights Eight cases against Ukraine   (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 4 February 2026 at the 1549th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)   Application No. Case Judgment of Final on 22273/12 VELICHKO 28/01/2021 28/01/2021 2806/18 ZAYARNYUK 11/02/2021 11/02/2021 66139/16 LADAN AND GULTYAYEV 25/02/2021 25/02/2021 451/13 PARKHOMENKO 28/10/2021 28/10/2021 50764/20 PISOTSKYY 09/02/2023 09/02/2023 41395/19 NESHCHERET 22/06/2023 22/06/2023 41832/16 KOSKO 06/07/2023 06/07/2023 5533/23 TSYUSMAK 14/11/2024 14/11/2024   The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which provides that the Committee supervises the execution of final judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” and “the Court”),   Having regard to the final judgments transmitted by the Court to the Committee in these cases and to the violations established on account of the inadequate medical care in detention and the lack of effective remedies thereof, the inadequate conditions of detention and the lack of effective remedies thereof, the excessive length of pre‑trial detention, and the excessive length of criminal proceedings;   Recalling the respondent State’s obligation, under Article 46, paragraph 1, of the Convention, to abide by all final judgments in cases to which it has been a party and that this obligation entails, over and above the payment of any sums awarded by the Court, the adoption by the authorities of the respondent State, where required:   -          of individual measures to put an end to violations established and erase their consequences so as to achieve as far as possible restitutio in integrum; and -          of general measures preventing similar violations;   Having invited the government of the respondent State to inform the Committee of the measures taken to comply with the above-mentioned obligation;   Having examined the action report provided by the government indicating the individual measures adopted to execute the judgments including the information provided regarding the payment of the just satisfaction awarded by the Court (see document DH-DD(2025)1110);   Considering that the question of individual measures was resolved, given that the applicants have been released from detention and the domestic proceedings have been terminated (in Ladan and Gultyayev in respect of the applicant concerned);   Recalling that the question of general measures required in response to the shortcomings found by the Court in this these judgments continues to be examined within the framework of the Logvinenko, Nevmerzhitsky, Ignatov and Merit groups of cases also in the light of the Court’s findings in these cases, and that the closure of these cases therefore in no way prejudges the Committee’s evaluation of the general measures in relation to the inadequate medical care in detention and the lack of effective remedies thereof, the inadequate conditions of detention and the lack of effective remedies thereof, the excessive length of pre‑trial detention, and the excessive length of criminal proceedings;   DECLARES that it has exercised its functions under Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention in these cases;   CONCLUDES that the necessary individual measures have been adopted;   DECIDES to continue to supervise the adoption of the necessary general measures concerning the inadequate medical care in detention and the lack of effective remedies thereof in the Logvinenko group of cases, the inadequate conditions of detention and the lack of effective remedies thereof in the Nevmerzhitsky group of cases, the excessive length of pre‑trial detention in the Ignatov group of cases, and the excessive length of criminal proceedings – in the Merit group of cases;   DECIDES to close the examination of these cases.