FIFTH SECTIONCASE OF SHAKHMINA AND SHAKHMIN v. UKRAINE(Application no. 14480/20)      JUDGMENT STRASBOURG6 July 2023 This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision.In the case of Shakhmina and Shakhmin 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 an application against Ukraine lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) on 10 March 2020.2. The applicants were represented by Mr A.A. Kristenko, a lawyer practising in the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine.3. The Ukrainian Government (“the Government”) were given notice of the application.THE FACTS4. The list of applicants and the relevant details of the application are set out in the appended table.5. The applicants complained of the ineffective investigation into a life‑threatening accident without involvement of State agents.THE LAWALLEGED VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 2 § 1 of the Convention6. The applicants complained of the ineffective investigation into a life‑threatening accident without involvement of State agents. They relied on Articles 2 and 13 of the Convention.7. 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).8.

Outcome for Article 2: violation