Former judge Oleksiy Tandir received a prison sentence for a fatal car accident - this is a unique case for Ukraine. In May 2023, the head of the Makarov court at the time, Oleksiy Tandir, beat to death 22-year-old National Guardsman Vadim Bondarenko at a checkpoint in Kyiv. On October 29, he was sentenced to 9 years in prison. And he became the first judge in Ukraine to be sentenced to a real term (not suspended) for a fatal drunk driving accident. Three years ago, almost no one believed in such a final, except Vadim Bondarenko's brother Oleksandr and his defender. Tandir himself spent all this time in pre-trial detention, divorced his wife, was dismissed from the position of judge and was denied a large judicial pension. Why this time the system "failed" and at the same time "restored faith", how the main characters of this story perceived the verdict and what they feel after it - read in the "Babel" report.

Former judge Oleksiy Tandir received a prison sentence for a fatal car accident - this is a unique case for Ukraine. In May 2023, the head of the Makarov court at the time, Oleksiy Tandir, beat to death 22-year-old National Guardsman Vadim Bondarenko at a checkpoint in Kyiv. On October 29, he was sentenced to 9 years in prison. And he became the first judge in Ukraine to be sentenced to a real term (not suspended) for a fatal drunk driving accident. Three years ago, almost no one believed in such a final, except Vadim Bondarenko's brother Oleksandr and his defender. Tandir himself spent all this time in pre-trial detention, divorced his wife, was dismissed from the position of judge and was denied a large judicial pension. Why this time the system "failed" and at the same time "restored faith", how the main characters of this story perceived the verdict and what they feel after it - read in the "Babel" report.