A former police officer accused of murdering 5-year-old Kirill Tlyavov in Pereyaslav has been called up to the Armed Forces of Ukraine
This was confirmed to *Suspilne* by Prykhodko’s lawyer, Viktor Chevguz.
According to him, Prykhodko was conscripted by representatives of the Territorial Recruitment Centre on 19 March, straight off the street. Despite the birth of his third child, he did not apply for a deferment from military service. Prykhodko is currently in the Donetsk region as part of one of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ units, likely in a separate unmanned aerial vehicle battalion.
In the case of the murder of five-year-old Kirill Tlyavov, the verdict was handed down back in 2023 — at that time, the court acquitted three suspects, but Prykhodko received a four-year prison sentence. He has already served three and a half years while the case was being heard.
Kirill Tlyavov’s killer was sentenced to four years, but he will spend only six months in prison. A report from the court hearing that the boy’s family had waited 3.5 years for, but never saw justice
The case is currently being heard on appeal. The last hearing at the Kyiv Court of Appeal took place on 5 June this year. At that time, Prykhodko’s lawyer presented the court with a certificate signed by the commander of the military unit confirming his client’s enlistment in the army.
Prosecutors in the courtroom requested that the hearing be adjourned for a month to confirm the fact of Prykhodko’s mobilisation and to ascertain whether the conditions of his service would allow the defendant to attend the hearings, particularly online.
The regional prosecutor’s office will now send a request to the Ministry of Defence to ascertain whether Ivan Prykhodko is indeed serving and whether he will be able to attend the hearings. The Kyiv Court of Appeal will then decide whether to continue the hearing, suspend proceedings regarding Prykhodko alone, or put the entire case on hold until the end of the war.
Elvira Lazarenko, a representative of the Tlyavov family, stated that Prykhodko’s mobilisation is an attempt to evade responsibility. According to her, representatives of the Tlyavov family will submit appeals to the Ministry of Defence and the military unit requesting that the order to mobilise Prykhodko be revoked.
The murder of Kirill Tlyavov in Pereyaslav: what is known
On 31 May 2019 in Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyi, Kyiv Oblast, two law enforcement officers — Ivan Prykhodko and Volodymyr Petrovets — were ‘shooting up’ a rifle, one bullet struck the courtyard where five-year-old Kirill Tlyavov was playing.
The child was taken to hospital with a closed head injury, a brain contusion, an intracerebral haematoma and a fracture of the temporal bone, and was admitted to the intensive care unit. On 3 June, the child died.
The National Police stated that, as a result of the investigation into Tlyavov’s murder, 12 police officers were held accountable, and six heads of the district police department were dismissed from their posts.
On 25 May 2023, former police officer Ivan Prykhodko was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment. The court imposed a two-year probationary period on another former law enforcement officer, Volodymyr Petrovets, for possessing ammunition. The court acquitted two other defendants in the case — Dmytro Kryvoshey and Stanislav Petrovets, who was a minor at the time of the offence.
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