A man was beaten and strangled with an extension cord in Kyiv

A 42-year-old man was killed in an apartment on European Union Avenue in Kyiv’s Podilskyi district. A 36-year-old serviceman who had deserted his military unit and was absent without leave (AWOL) is suspected of the crime.

According to preliminary investigative findings, the serviceman visited his former partner. She has been living with another partner for more than 4 years. All three of them drank alcohol, after which the men argued over jealousy.

According to law enforcement officials, the visitor attacked the woman’s partner, hitting him with his hands, feet, and a wooden table leg. He then wrapped an electrical extension cord around the victim’s neck and strangled him. After the attack, he covered the body with a rug.

The woman called her daughter and told her what had happened. The daughter was the one who reported the murder to law enforcement. Patrol officers, investigators, and investigative teams arrived at the apartment. The suspect was detained at the residence under Article 208 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine.

Investigators from the Podilskyi Police Department, under the procedural guidance of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for the Central Region’s Defense Sector, notified the man that he was suspected of intentional murder. His actions were classified under Part 1 of Article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, which carries a sentence of up to 15 years in prison.

For the duration of the pre-trial investigation, the court ordered the suspect to be held in custody. Investigative actions are ongoing.

Previously, we reported:

• A “love triangle” in Mykolaiv style: instead of romance, two murders and horrific hiding places
• At night, a Mykolaiv region resident killed his ex and her new husband, then shot himself
• Out of jealousy: in Mykolaiv, a man stabbed his former live-in partner’s husband to death
• In the Mykolaiv region, a wheelchair user was sentenced to 13 years in prison for stabbing a man to death out of jealousy
• In the Mykolaiv region, an 18-year-old woman beat her 38-year-old rival out of jealousy; the victim died