SC President Vsevolod Kniaziev Visited Irpin and Borodianka and Inspected the State of the Court Buildings

“It is necessary to resume the work of the courts in the territories liberated from Russian troops as soon as possible,” stressed the President of the Supreme Court Vsevolod Kniaziev during his working visit to the premises of the courts in Irpin and Borodianka, Kyiv region, yesterday, April 13, 2022. Together with the President of the Supreme Court, the state of the buildings of the local courts was inspected by Oleksii Salnikov, Acting Head of the State Judicial Administration of Ukraine, Valerii Bondar, Head of the Court Security Service, and Serhii Vlasenko, People's Deputy of Ukraine.

Fortunately, the building of the Irpin City Court of Kyiv Region withstood the onslaught of the occupation troops and received non-critical damage: some windows were broken, some organizational equipment disappeared. The elimination of these minor (compared to other court buildings) shortcomings will help to restore the work of the court in the shortest possible time.

But the two-storey building of the Borodianka District Court of the Kyiv region has been completely destroyed as a result of shelling by the Russian army. To resume the work of this court, it is necessary to find new premises. And this task is not an easy one, because Borodianka is one of the towns that significantly suffered at the hands of the Russian occupiers. So the search for potential premises for the needs of the court is ongoing.

"They can destroy temples of justice, but neither bullets nor bombs can stop justice itself. After all, justice is, first of all, the people who administer it, and the people who need it. Living through this, without exaggeration, the most dramatic period of our independent history, the judiciary, like all Ukraine, faces unprecedented challenges. But the truth is that today we are united as never before. So the full resumption of the work of all courts is only a matter of time. Now we must focus on the resumption of the work of the courts in the territories liberated from the Russian invaders. And despite the fact that this task is not an easy one, because the choice of surviving buildings into which the court can be “relocated” is extremely limited, we will cope with it,” Vsevolod Kniaziev is convinced.