FIFTH SECTIONCASE OF LEZNYUK v. UKRAINE(Application no. 35431/21)     JUDGMENT STRASBOURG21 September 2023    This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision. In the case of Leznyuk 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 31 August 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 26 June 2021.2. The Ukrainian Government (“the Government”) were given notice of the application.THE FACTS3. The applicant’s details and information relevant to the application are set out in the appended table.4. The applicant complained of the ineffective investigation into the death of his son without involvement of State agents.THE LAWALLEGED VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 2 § 1 of the Convention5. The applicant complained of the ineffective investigation into the death of his son in a traffic accident. He relied on Articles 2 and 13 of the Convention.6. 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