Thieves' raids on "Aurora": a resident of Korabelnyi robbed two stores but escaped punishment

The story of a theft at the store “Aurora” on st. Metalurhiv, 36 in the Korabelnyi District of the city of Mykolaiv ended in nothing. In July 2025 a local resident Rostyslav Shapranov decided to give himself an “unlimited coffee” spree, taking goods from the store worth a substantial sum.

However, the judiciary proved powerless in the face of a banal non-appearance: the suspect ignored court summonses, and the police’s attempts to bring him in remained only on paper. And already in 2026 the Korabelnyi District Court was forced to put a final stop to this case.

According to the case materials, the first theft by Shapranov from “Aurora” occurred on July 6, 2025. The man acted quickly — in just two minutes (from 11:20 to 11:22) he managed to secretly take a whole set of coffee beverages.

The list of stolen items included:

• 2 packs of “Stary Lviv” coffee, 900 grams each;
• 6 packs of natural ground coffee FORT, 225 g each;
• instant coffee drink Fine it.

The total amount of damages for LLC “Vyhidna Pokupka” amounted to UAH 2,739. Such actions were qualified as repeat petty theft (part 2 of Art. 51 of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses).

A game of hide-and-seek with justice

The case was submitted to the court back at the end of July 2025, but the hearing was delayed for many months. The reason is standard — the defendant did not appear at a single session.

Judge Tetyana Torzhynska repeatedly ordered compulsory bring-ins, but the law enforcement officers still could not deliver the man to court. Documents explaining why the police did not execute the bring-ins were not provided to the court.

Hearings were postponed five times: in September, October, November, December 2025, and already in 2026 the court issued the final Ruling in this case.

By law, a sanction for such offenses may be imposed no later than three months from the date of the offense. Since more than six months had passed since the theft, the judge had no choice but to close the proceedings due to the expiration of the time limits for imposing an administrative penalty.

Thus, Shapranov will not pay a fine or court fee, and the question of his guilt in this case remained without a legal assessment.

As is known, impunity breeds new violations of the law. Not to mention that Rostyslav Shapranov has for several years in a row had problems with the judiciary (sometimes as a debtor to heating and electricity suppliers, sometimes as an accused in domestic violence, sometimes as a non-payer of alimony), he, already having summonses to court regarding the theft described above, again robbed the store “Aurora”, only at a different address (at Okeanivska St., 28B).

Thus, on October 5, 2025 at 14:30 the thief committed a petty theft of goods from “Aurora” totaling UAH 1,996.

Then – the same story: the accused’s failures to appear in court, the impossibility of a compulsory bring-in by the police due to Shapranov’s absence at his place of residence, and another Ruling of the court dated April 6, 2026 to close the proceedings due to the expiration of the time limits for imposing an administrative penalty.