During 2024, foreign countries issued 73 persons to Ukraine to prosecute and enforce courts. This is more than four times higher than 2022, when, against the background of the Russian invasion, the issuance of criminals has almost stopped.
This was announced by Deputy Minister of Justice Yevgeny Pikalov. According to him, after the start of a full -scale war, extradition was complicated by fears of European countries on the conditions of keeping the persons to be issued. Referred to standards of the European Convention on Human Rights. However, the situation has changed now.
According to Pikalov, the Ministry of Justice organized systematic work to ensure the proper conditions of maintenance of the extraordinary. Separate sites that meet the Council of Europe's penitentiary standards have been created. This was what allowed the main legal restriction on which foreign states were refused the issuance of suspects and convicts.
As a result, not only the number of persons issued, but also the range of states that cooperate with Ukraine in this direction has increased in recent years. If there were only 17 such cases in 2022, then in 2023 - 22. And for 2024 - 73. As of the beginning of 2025 - another 72 people.
Poland and Germany remain the main countries that transmit violators to Ukraine. However, geography is gradually expanding - other EU countries, including Spain, Italy, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia and Moldova, are coming to cooperation.
The Ministry of Justice believes that the elimination of the problem with the conditions of detention of extraordinary persons allowed to break the practice of abuse, when the violators avoided responsibility, covering themselves with human rights standards.
