Ukraine has been waiting for fugitive MP Dmytruk's extradition for nine months
For more than nine months now, Ukraine has been waiting for the extradition from the UK of MP Artem Dmytruk, who is involved in a number of criminal proceedings. This follows from the response to the request LIGA.net provided by the Office of the Prosecutor General.
Ukrainian law enforcement requested the extradition of Dmytruk to the United Kingdom on October 1, 2025.
The process of extradition of the suspect is currently ongoing, the Office of the Prosecutor General noted.
On September 5, almost a month before the extradition request was sent, Ukrainian law enforcement asked their British counterparts to establish Dmytruk's whereabouts and take him into custody for further extradition.
On September 24, Dmytruk stated that he had been detained by British law enforcement as part of the extradition process, but was later released after a trial. A source in the law enforcement sector told LIGA.net that the information about Dmytruk's alleged detention was a "fake and a throw-in" by the Russians, and that there was no trial on the MP's extradition to Ukraine yet.
Two days after that, the Office of the Prosecutor General reported to that it was cooperating with international partners and preparing documents for Dmytruk's extradition.
- Dmytruk is a majoritarian who was elected to the Rada from the Servant of the People, but was expelled from the faction in 2021.
- In late August 2024, then-Prosecutor General Kostin served Dmytruk with a notice of suspicion over attacks on a law enforcement officer and a military officer in Odesa and Kyiv that took place in 2022 and 2023. On the same day, before the suspicion was announced, the media reported that Dmytruk had left for Moldova. Subsequently, the State Bureau of Investigation opened proceedings on the fact of illegal border crossing, the court arrested Dmytruk in absentia, and he was put on the international wanted list.
- After Dmytruk's escape, the State Bureau of Investigation explained: they really had case files on the MP, but he could not be detained earlier – there was no suspicion from the Prosecutor General.
- Before and after his escape, the MP became "famous" for pro-Russian statements.
