FIFTH SECTIONCASE OF FIYALO AND OTHERS v. UKRAINE(Applications nos. 62545/15 and 3 others –see appended list)     JUDGMENT STRASBOURG6 July 2023   This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision. In the case of Fiyalo and Others v. Ukraine,The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting as a Committee composed of: Carlo Ranzoni, President, Lado Chanturia, María Elósegui, judges,and Viktoriya Maradudina, Acting Deputy Section Registrar,Having deliberated in private on 15 June 2023,Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date:PROCEDURE1. The case originated in applications against Ukraine lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) on the various dates indicated in the appended table.2. The Ukrainian Government (“the Government”) were given notice of the applications.THE FACTS3. The list of applicants and the relevant details of the applications are set out in the appended table.4. The applicants complained of the ineffective investigation into the deaths or life-threatening accidents without involvement of State agents.THE LAWJOINDER OF THE APPLICATIONS5. Having regard to the similar subject matter of the applications, the Court finds it appropriate to examine them jointly in a single judgment.ALLEGED VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 2 § 1 of the Convention6. The applicants complained of the ineffective investigation into deaths or life-threatening accidents without involvement of State agents. They relied on Articles 2, 3, 6 and 13 of the Convention.The Court, which is the master of the characterisation to be given in law to the facts of the case, finds that the complaint at issue falls to be examined under Article 2 of the Convention (see, Igor Shevchenko v. Ukraine, no. 22737/04, § 38, 12 January 2012).7.

Outcome for Article 2: violation