The Lychakiv District Court of Lviv has decided to arrest Andriy Trush, an inspector at the Lviv Customs, who is suspected of the intentional murder of soldier Oleg Avdiyiev from the Halytsko-Frankivsk Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Support. The preventive measure involves detention without the possibility of bail.
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Incident Details: Versions and Sequence of Events
During the court hearing, Andriy Trush stated that on April 2, he visited a funeral services shop with relatives due to his grandmother’s death. According to him, he heard noise outside, exited the shop, and witnessed a conflict between his brother and the TCK employees. Trush claims that he intervened in the argument, after which the military enlistment office employees used a pepper spray against him. Following that, he stated that he remembers nothing and found himself at home. In court, the man requested house arrest, but the prosecutor insisted on detention due to the risk of fleeing abroad.
The investigation established that on April 2, a soldier from the TCK, Oleg Avdiyiev, was fatally wounded in Lviv. An unknown individual attacked him during an alert event, inflicting several knife wounds to his neck, resulting in the man’s death in the hospital.
Investigation and Circumstances of the Case
According to law enforcement, during the verification of military registration documents on Patona Street in Lviv, a dispute arose among the participants, which escalated into a scuffle. The customs inspector, attempting to prevent the detention of his brother, drew a knife and inflicted several wounds on the soldier, including to the neck.
“A verbal dispute arose among the participants, which escalated into a scuffle. During the conflict, the customs officer, trying to prevent his brother’s detention, drew a knife and inflicted several wounds on the soldier, particularly to the neck.”
Oleg Avdiyiev, who died as a result of the incident, was a well-known Lviv luger and represented Ukraine at the Winter Olympics in Nagano in 1998 and Salt Lake City in 2002 in the doubles luge event. In November 2025, he joined the service in the TCK, and until 2005, he served in the border service.
After the onset of Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine on February 24, martial law was declared, and general mobilization began, which the Verkhovna Rada periodically extends. Reports of conflicts between TCK employees and citizens regularly appear in the Ukrainian information space. Ukrainian military and government representatives believe that the spread of negative information about mobilization is a result of Russia’s information-psychological operations.
The investigation into the incident is ongoing under the procedural guidance of the State Bureau of Investigations, and a criminal proceeding has been opened for intentional murder.