New judge of Bashtanka district court appointed in Mykolaiv region

On October 8, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed decrees appointing 21 new judges to local courts across the country. In total, the personnel changes affected courts in 11 regions.

The relevant decree was posted on the website of the President of Ukraine.

These appointments are of particular importance for the southern regions. In Mykolaiv region, the Bashtanka District Court received a new judge - Tetiana Hapieieva was appointed to the position.

The Kherson region also received two new judges: Natalia Kuzmenko started working at the Kherson District Administrative Court, and Alla Rybas - at the Bilozersky District Court.

In addition, new judges have been appointed to the courts of Dnipropetrovs'k, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kirovohrad, Luhansk, Sumy, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi and Zhytomyr regions. The relevant decrees were published on the official website of the President.

Earlier, the Kherson City Court found former judge Yulia Berlimova guilty of treason and collaboration. She had been working as a judge since 2009, and during the full-scale invasion of Russia, she headed the Genichesk District Court of Kherson region.

During covert investigative actions, law enforcement officers received correspondence in Berlimova's telegram, which indicates that she was passing information to the enemy. The judge sent information about former police officers who had been tried for corruption and drugs, photocopies of indictments, personal data and possible addresses of employees of the Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Support with a pro-Ukrainian position, and also informed the occupants about employees of the Genichesk District Court.

Three Ukrainian citizens testified in court, in respect of whom the judge considered motions to change and extend preventive measures in the name of the Russian Federation in July-August 2023. A Russian flag was hanging at the hearings, Berlimova wore a robe, referred to Russian legislation, spoke Russian and behaved confidently, without signs of coercion. The information about the signatures on the documents was confirmed by handwriting analysis.

Катерина Глушко