The Shevchenko District Court of Kiev has extended the preventive measure for the accused in the murder of Pavel Sheremet Yulia Kuzmenko, Andrey Antonenko and Yana Dugar until January 19, 2022, Ukrinform reports..

The court, by its decision, satisfied the petition of the prosecutor's office regarding all three defendants in the case. The decision was read by the presiding judge Oksana Golub.

“The court accepted: the prosecutor's petition to extend Antonenko's term of the preventive measure - to satisfy. To extend Antonenko's measure of restraint in the form of house arrest in a certain period of the day - from 23:00 to 6:00 - using an electronic means of control. The period of validity of the preventive measure is set to 2 months - until January 19, 2022 inclusive, ”the decision says..

A similar decision was made regarding Yulia Kuzmenko, and Yana Dugar's obligations were extended for the same period - until January 19, 2022 inclusive..

The next meeting in the Sheremet case is scheduled for December 6, 2021.

Journalist Pavel Sheremet was killed on July 20, 2016 as a result of a car explosion in Kiev, at the intersection of Khmelnitsky and Franko streets.

On December 12, 2019, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced the arrest of suspects in organizing the explosion: war veteran in Donbass and musician Andrei Antonenko, military medic Yana Dugar and volunteer, Okhmatdet doctor Yulia Kuzmenko.

All three deny any involvement in the murder..

In 2020, the court released Dugar and Kuzmenko from the pre-trial detention center, meanwhile Antonenko had to wait for the same mitigation of the preventive measure until April 30, 2021..

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On September 27, 2021, the court changed Antonenko's measure of restraint from round-the-clock to night house arrest.