The Case
A native of Donetsk. Veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war, volunteer.
In the summer of 2014, with the beginning of the Russian occupation, she was forced to leave Donetsk.
On the Internet, she met her future husband - Anatoly Kotelents, a volunteer. In 2015, she went to the front herself. She fought in the volunteer units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces "Right Sector" and UDA (Ukrainian Volunteer Army) - 2015-2017. Her husband fought in the same units (2014-2017), since 2018 he is an officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (with the rank of lieutenant). .
Raises two children - a son aged 11 and a daughter aged 1.
Mother - Natalia Vorontsova - a well-known Ukrainian volunteer.
On February 27, 2020, criminal proceedings No. 12020000000000174 were initiated, in which Victoria Kotelenets appears.
On January 19, 2021, Viktoria Kotelenets was detained by the National Police of Ukraine at the premises of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs, where she was receiving a certificate of a participant in hostilities. The investigation incriminated Viktoria part 2 of Art. 260 of the Criminal Code (Creation of armed formations not provided for by law or participation in their activities) and Part 1 of Art. 438 of the Criminal Code (Cruel treatment of prisoners of war or the civilian population, deportation of the civilian population for forced labor, looting of national values in the occupied territory, use of means of warfare prohibited by international law, other violations of the laws and customs of war stipulated by international treaties, consent to the obligation the binding nature of which is granted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, as well as issuing an order to perform such actions). This article was added to the suspicion only on January 18, 2021. The suspicion was based on the "expertise" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which allegedly established the similarity of Victoria with the woman who participated in the convoy of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Donetsk on August 24, 2014.
Viktoria was taken to the Pechersk district court in Kyiv, where judge Svitlana Volkova chose a preventive measure for her in the form of detention.
At the same time, the defense (attorneys Vitaly Tsokur, Vitaly Kolomiets) prepared a motion to change the preventive measure.
On January 28, 2021, the Kyiv Court of Appeal postponed the hearing of the appeal to February 3 due to the fact that the case materials did not reach the court in time.
On February 3, 2021, the Kyiv Court of Appeal partially granted the request of Victoria's defense and ordered a preventive measure in the form of 24-hour house arrest.
Persecutors
Svitlana Volodymyrivna Shaputko
Position: Judge of the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv Date and place of birth: 05/28/1985 - Alchevsk Information about...
Volkova Svitlana Yakivna
Position: judge of the Pechersk district court in the city of Kyiv. On June 22, 2023, the Supreme Council of Justice released Svetlana...
Dmytro Romanovych Baranchuk
Position: Senior investigator of the State Security Service of the State Government of Ukraine, police major Date and place of birth: 14.07.1987, Ostrog, Rivne...