UKRAINE, May 2 — In Kyiv, a citizen of Uzbekistan was found guilty of 11 murders, which he committed in the Kharkiv and Kyiv regions over the past six years, said the National Police of Ukraine.

According to investigation, the man killed eight Ukrainians and citizens of Uzbekistan, Lithuania, and Georgia. 

The Prosecutor’s Office said that in Kharkiv of 2018, the man strucked his friend with an axe 30 times, killing him. After that, he went to Kyiv, where he committed a series of murders.

“There are men and women aged from 35 to 81 among his victims. The criminal gained the victims’ trust, talked and drank with them, and killed them after they lost their vigilance. He strangled or stoned victims and took their stuff. The phone costing 1,600 hryvnias ($38), and 5,000 hryvnias ($120) in cash were his most expensive findings,” said the police.

In January 2024, the police arrested the man after he killed a flower shop worker in Kyiv.

In November 2024, the National Police investigators concluded a pre-trial investigation and sent the case to the local courtHolosiivskyi district in Kyiv, which, in spring of 2025, sentenced him to life imprisonment.

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