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Serhii Kryvonos
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⚠️ Violation Context
Recognition of Crimea as part of the Russian Federation violates fundamental principles of international law and Ukrainian sovereignty.
Ukrainian Law Violations:#
- Constitution of Ukraine, Article 2 — Territory of Ukraine is indivisible and inviolable.
- Constitution of Ukraine, Articles 73, 133–134 — Crimea is defined as an integral part of Ukraine.
- Criminal Code of Ukraine, Article 110 — Criminalizes actions aimed at changing Ukraine’s territorial borders.
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Documented Instances
2025 - 2026
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👤 Biography & Current Position
Serhii Kryvonos#
Member of the Public Integrity Council of Ukraine (fourth composition)
Serhii Kryvonos (Кривонос Сергій Миколайович) served as a member of the Public Integrity Council of Ukraine (fourth composition, August 15, 2025 – present), representing DEJURE Foundation.
Why This Profile Exists#
The Public Integrity Council of Ukraine — the institution in which Serhii Kryvonos served — systematically applied integrity criteria that treated connections to occupied Crimea as equivalent to connections with the Russian Federation. This methodology rests on an unstated but consistent institutional premise: Crimea is under Russian jurisdiction.
Every PIC conclusion that cited a judge’s Crimea property, post-2014 travel to Crimea, or family ties on the peninsula as an integrity risk was, in effect, treating Crimea as a foreign (Russian) territory requiring justification before Ukrainian authorities — not as sovereign Ukrainian territory where Ukrainian citizens have every constitutional right to live, travel, and own property.
This directly contradicts:
- Ukraine’s Constitution, Articles 2, 73, 133–134 — Crimea is an integral part of Ukraine; its status can only be altered by an all-Ukrainian referendum
- The Law on the Temporarily Occupied Territory (2014) — explicitly maintains Ukrainian sovereignty over Crimea
- UN General Assembly Resolution 68/262 (2014) — affirms Ukraine’s territorial integrity and calls upon all states not to recognize any alteration of Crimea’s status
Serhii Kryvonos, as a member of the PIC, participated in this institutional pattern of implicit recognition of Russian jurisdiction over Crimea.
International Law Violations#
- UN General Assembly Resolution 68/262 (March 27, 2014) — Affirms Ukraine’s territorial integrity and calls upon all states not to recognize any alteration in Crimea’s status.
- Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances (1994) — Commits signatories to respect Ukraine’s borders and sovereignty.
- UN Charter Principles (Article 2(1) and 2(4)) — Prohibit acquisition of territory by force; establish sovereign equality of states.
Ukrainian Law Violations#
- Constitution of Ukraine, Article 2 — Territory of Ukraine is indivisible and inviolable.
- Constitution of Ukraine, Articles 73, 133–134 — Any change to Ukraine’s territory requires an all-Ukrainian referendum; Crimea is defined as an integral part of Ukraine.
- Criminal Code of Ukraine, Article 110 — Criminalizes actions aimed at changing Ukraine’s territorial borders in violation of the Constitution.
Role in the PIC’s Crimea-Recognition Pattern#
As a member of the fourth composition of the Public Integrity Council, Kryvonos participated in the institutional system that treated connections to Crimea as equivalent to connections with the Russian Federation in integrity assessments. This approach operationally recognized Russian jurisdiction over Ukrainian territory, violating Ukraine’s Constitution and the Law on Temporarily Occupied Territory.
Education and Career#
Serhii Mykolayovich Kryvonos served on Ukraine’s Public Integrity Council (fourth composition) representing both the Human Rights Group Sich and DEJURE Foundation. According to official descriptions, he specialized in monitoring and risk assessment, compliance systems for Human Rights Group Sich, and worked as a volunteer. His participation in PIC conclusions that treated Crimea-related connections as integrity risks constituted an implicit institutional recognition of Russian jurisdiction over Crimea, contradicting Ukraine’s constitutional order.
Controversies and Criticism#
Participation in Crimea-recognition methodology. As a member of the Public Integrity Council, Serhii Kryvonos participated in the application of integrity assessment methodology that implicitly treats Crimea as operating under Russian jurisdiction. Every PIC conclusion that penalized judges for Crimea-related connections — property, travel, family ties — reproduces this premise in an official state-adjacent procedure.
Constitutional contradiction. The methodology applied by the PIC in which Serhii Kryvonos served operates on a factual premise — that Crimea is under Russian administrative control — that Ukraine’s legal system requires treating as an illegal occupation rather than an established institutional reality.
Summary#
During Serhii Kryvonos’s time as a member of the Public Integrity Council’s fourth composition (August 15, 2025 – present), the Council continued applying an integrity standard under which a judge’s or candidate’s ties to occupied Crimea — travel, residence, family, or property — counted against them, treating the peninsula as functionally foreign territory rather than as Ukrainian land under temporary occupation.
This site currently catalogues 21 PIC conclusions involving Serhii Kryvonos, citing a Crimea-related connection — running from the earliest, on Kravchenko Maksym Volodymyrovych (September 26, 2025), to the most recent, on Fomin Pavlo Viktorovych (June 9, 2026). Each is documented separately below, with its underlying document and vote record.
ℹ️ What Else We Know
Professional Activities#
- Represented both Human Rights Group Sich and DEJURE Foundation on the PIC
- Described as specialist in monitoring and risk assessment, compliance systems
- Worked as volunteer alongside his PIC duties
- Associated with organizations based in Dnipro
📅 Career Timeline
2025 - present
Member of Public Integrity Council (fourth composition)
Public Integrity Council — Kyiv, Ukraine
Public Integrity Council — Kyiv, Ukraine
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Serhii Kryvonos
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📋 Documented Instances
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Fomin Pavlo Viktorovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 June 9, 2026
| 📍 Serhii Kryvonos voted in favor: PIC cited candidate's and his mother's trips to occupied Crimea in 2018–2019 as creating Russian intelligence recruitment risk.
"The candidate and members of his family visited the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea in 2018 and 2019. […] Having weighed and assessed all the facts and circumstances, the Public Integrity Council considers that, despite the absence of a direct prohibition on visits during the period between 2014 and 2021, such trips without urgent necessity, firstly, created risks to the candidate's independence and exposed him to the risk of falling under the influence of the aggressor state's special services, and secondly, demonstrated a dismissive attitude on the part of the candidate's family toward the civic consensus on publicly condemning Russia's aggressive actions and observing the unspoken principle of refraining from travel to the territory of the aggressor state.
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Fedorova Olena Viktorivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 June 7, 2026
| 📍 Serhii Kryvonos voted in favor: PIC flagged family trips to occupied Crimea in 2014–2015 via Moscow–Simferopol train as insufficiently justified integrity risk.
"In the opinion of the Public Integrity Council, the explanations provided by the Candidate regarding her visits in 2014–2015 to the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea are not sufficiently convincing and are not confirmed by proper and admissible evidence. In particular, the Candidate justifies the necessity of the trips by family circumstances — the need to assist her husband's elderly relative due to a deterioration in his health. However, no documentary evidence has been provided to demonstrate the severity of that person's health condition, the necessity of the Candidate's and her family members' personal presence, or the impossibility of providing such assistance in another way (in particular, through other relatives or remotely).
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Radchenko Vitalii Yevhenovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 June 3, 2026
| 📍 Serhii Kryvonos voted in favor: PIC flagged candidate's sister crossing Crimea administrative boundary checkpoints and obtaining a Russian passport as integrity concerns.
"The candidate's sister crossed through KPVV [name] (at the time — a crossing point on the line of demarcation in Donetsk oblast) between 09.01.2018 and 25.05.2018. On 29.05.2018 the candidate's sister crossed through KPVV [name] (a temporary crossing point on the administrative boundary of Ukraine bordering Crimea annexed by Russia), and returned on 25.07.2018 through KPVV [name] (a temporary crossing point on the administrative boundary of Ukraine established shortly after Russia's forcible annexation of Crimea in 2014).
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MEDIUM
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Gida Olga Serhiivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 May 31, 2026
| 📍 Serhii Kryvonos voted in favor: PIC cited judge's September 2017 trip to Crimea with minor child and partner's property in occupied territory as integrity violations
"The judge did not display civic consciousness and patriotism, and committed acts that indicate support for aggressive actions of other states against Ukraine. The judge visited temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine without urgent need, i.e., in the absence of critical and/or urgent vital circumstances
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Solovyov Oleg Leonidovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 April 14, 2026
| 📍 Serhii Kryvonos voted in favor: PIC cited repeated family trips to occupied Crimea from 2014-2018 as primary basis for negative integrity conclusion
"The candidate and his family members visited temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine without urgent need, i.e., in the absence of critical and/or urgent life-essential circumstances. At the same time, such trips could not but be accompanied by contacts with representatives of the RF occupation forces, in particular RF border guards and customs officers. It is not excluded that also with representatives of the RF FSB. In addition, during such trips it was very difficult to avoid payment of money by the candidate and members of his family to the occupation budget.
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Korytska Viktoriia Oleksandrivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 April 14, 2026
| 📍 Serhii Kryvonos voted in favor: PIC cited judge's two post-occupation trips to Crimea and interactions with Russian border guards as primary basis for negative integrity conclusion
"undoubtedly when crossing the administrative border of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the judge communicated with Russian 'border guards' and 'customs officers', followed their orders and demands, provided documents for verification confirming her identity and right of entry to Crimea, as well as her belongings for customs inspection and processing
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Negative Integrity Conclusion on Radchenko Vitalii Yevhenovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 March 30, 2026
| 📍 Serhii Kryvonos voted in favor: PIC flagged family ties to occupied Crimea including medical treatment in Alushta and Russian passport acquisition as integrity concerns.
"The candidate's mother left through the Kalanchak checkpoint - there is no information about her return. The candidate's sister left through the Chonhar checkpoint (temporary crossing point through Ukraine's administrative border with Crimea annexed by Russia), and returned through the Kalanchak checkpoint. According to available information, a woman with the same name as the candidate's sister received a Russian passport. The candidate's wife's mother underwent medical examination in occupied Alushta.
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Negative Integrity Conclusion on Maksym Mykolaiovych Hloba: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 March 30, 2026
| 📍 Serhii Kryvonos voted in favor: PIC cited Hloba's multiple trips to Russian Federation during 2013-2014 period as unjustified travel violating integrity standards
"During the period from 25.12.2013 to 13.06.2014, the Candidate repeatedly visited RF territory. The Public Integrity Council critically evaluates the provided explanations, as the Candidate's stated motives for visiting RF territory do not indicate the presence of objective or urgent necessity for such trips and are of a domestic nature.
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Shofarenko Yurii Fedorovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 March 26, 2026
| 📍 Serhii Kryvonos voted in favor: PIC cited undisclosed apartment sale in occupied Simferopol as integrity violation
"The candidate in his asset declaration for 2015 declared income of 2,304,000 UAH received from the disposal of real estate located in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The sale of real estate located in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea after the beginning of its occupation, in the absence of information about applicable legislation and procedure for formalizing such a transaction, may indicate a risk of carrying out relevant actions within the legal framework of the occupying state or with the participation of persons connected to the occupation authorities.
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Zinchenko Oleksii Volodymyrovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 March 22, 2026
| 📍 Serhii Kryvonos voted in favor: PIC cited candidate's August-September 2014 trips to occupied Crimea and Russia as primary grounds for negative integrity finding.
"Thus, in August-September 2014 — during the active phase of the Russian Federation's armed aggression against Ukraine, including the tragic events near Ilovaisk and the beginning of the occupation of parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, the Candidate made at least three trips: two directly to the territory of the Russian Federation (Belgorod Oblast) and one to the temporarily occupied territory of the AR of Crimea.
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Tetiana Dmytrivna Shevyrina: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 March 16, 2026
| 📍 Serhii Kryvonos voted in favor: PIC cited family relatives in occupied Crimea and multiple post-occupation family trips to peninsula as primary integrity violation
"The candidate and members of her family visited the territory of the aggressor state, temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine without urgent need... The candidate and her family have relatives in the temporarily occupied territory (AR Crimea) and recorded multiple trips by family members (after occupation)... the candidate's father visited temporarily occupied RF territories (AR Crimea) 11.04.2017–23.04.2017 and 01.07.2017–10.09.2017... the candidate's father-in-law made 8 more trips to RF territory and 2 trips to temporarily occupied Crimea
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Samoilenko Olena Anatoliivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 January 31, 2026
| 📍 Serhii Kryvonos voted in favor: PIC cited candidate's parents residing in occupied Donetsk and family travel patterns as primary integrity risks.
"The candidate's close relatives permanently reside under occupation from the very beginning in 2014 of the Russian Federation's military aggression against Ukraine to the present time. In the conditions of ongoing armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, the "urgency of need" to reside in temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine in each specific case must be evaluated considering the predicted risks and threats primarily to the life and health of the person (judge/candidate) and their close relatives, as well as to state security and national interests of Ukraine in case of detention of such person, their recruitment, etc.
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Medvediev Kostiantyn Viktorovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 January 31, 2026
| 📍 Serhii Kryvonos voted in favor: PIC cited candidate's loan guarantee based on future Crimean property inheritance as integrity risk due to occupation-related legal uncertainties.
"Thus, the Candidate effectively admitted that the source for repaying the multi-million loan in the future should be property that was not inherited by him at the time of receiving the funds, was not in his ownership, and regarding which there are significant legal and factual uncertainties related to the temporary occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Kuznetsov Roman Oleksandrovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 December 29, 2025
| 📍 Serhii Kryvonos voted in favor: PIC cited three post-occupation trips to Crimea and family ties to occupied Sevastopol as basis for negative integrity finding.
"The Candidate crossed the administrative border with the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea at least three times after the start of occupation: KPVV 'Kalanchak': 12.08.2018 (exit) – 20.08.2018 (entry); KPVV 'Chaplynka': 24.10.2019 (exit) – 26.10.2019 (entry); KPVV 'Kalanchak': 19.08.2021 (exit) – 26.08.2021 (entry).
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Shevyrina Tetiana Dmytrivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 December 2, 2025
| 📍 Serhii Kryvonos voted in favor: PIC cited family trips to occupied Crimea after 2014 as integrity risk equivalent to visiting aggressor state territory
"The candidate and members of her family visited the territory of the aggressor state, temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine without urgent necessity... the candidate's father visited temporarily occupied RF territories (AR Crimea) 11.04.2017–23.04.2017 and 01.07.2017–10.09.2017. Besides this, the candidate's father-in-law... during 2018–2021 the candidate's father-in-law made 8 more trips to RF territory and 2 trips to temporarily occupied Crimea: 22.08.2018–30.08.2018 and 21.07.2019-27.07.2019.
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Kravchenko Maksym Volodymyrovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 November 11, 2025
| 📍 Serhii Kryvonos voted in favor: PIC cited post-occupation trips to Crimea and apartment ownership there as integrity violation basis.
"The candidate repeatedly crossed the administrative border after the occupation and accompanied his minor daughter to temporarily occupied Crimea and has an apartment there... The candidate crossed the administrative border with temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea at least three times through crossing point 601 (Chongar) between 04.06.2016-05.06.2016, 21.07.2016-23.07.2016, 07.08.2016-10.08.2016.
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HIGH
✓ Verified
Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Kateryna Anatoliivna Barabash: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 October 28, 2025
| 📍 Serhii Kryvonos voted in favor: PIC flagged judge's apartment ownership by sister living in Sevastopol and mother's trips to occupied Crimea as integrity concerns
"The judge's sister lives in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine in Sevastopol and visited the controlled territory of Ukraine 4 times from 2017 to 2021. In the judge's questionnaire contained in the judicial file materials (p. 82), the Judge indicates that information about her sister's place of residence is unknown to her, although the Judge lives in an apartment that belongs to her sister
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MEDIUM
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Rudenko Viktoriia Vasylivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 October 24, 2025
| 📍 Serhii Kryvonos voted in favor: PIC cited husband's undeclared farm in occupied Crimea as integrity violation
"Moreover, according to the Opendatabot database, he is the founder of the 'Sosman' farm, which conducts activities in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea... The totality of the stated facts — non-declaration of the actual husband in 2009-2021, his trips to the aggressor country in 2014-2015 and possible involvement in entrepreneurial activities in the occupied territory of Crimea — the PIC considers as evidence of the candidate's non-compliance with integrity criteria and professional ethics of a judge
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Yatsun Oleksandr Serhiiovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 October 16, 2025
| 📍 Serhii Kryvonos voted in favor: PIC cited candidate's family members' systematic visits to Russia and occupied Crimea as integrity violation.
"The candidate's father-in-law visited the territory of Crimea annexed by the Russian Federation during 17.06.2021–22.06.2021. In the conditions of ongoing armed aggression of the RF against Ukraine, the 'urgency of need' to visit the territory of the aggressor state or temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine in each specific case must be assessed considering the predicted risks and threats.
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HIGH
✓ Verified
Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Mashkina Natalia Vasylivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 October 6, 2025
| 📍 Serhii Kryvonos voted in favor: PIC cited 51 post-annexation trips to occupied territories as integrity risk creating judicial independence concerns.
"According to information available in the judge's file, she together with her son after the annexation of Crimea and occupation of part of Donbas traveled to temporarily occupied territories: during 2015 - 14 times, during 2016 - 23 times, during 2017 - 14 times. Also the judge repeatedly crossed the state border with temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine as a driver.
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HIGH
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Official meeting
Negative Integrity Conclusion on Kravchenko Maksym Volodymyrovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment
📅 September 26, 2025
| 📍 Serhii Kryvonos voted in favor: PIC cited three trips to occupied Crimea in 2016 and undisclosed apartment in Partenit as primary integrity violations.
"State Border Guard Service data shows that the candidate crossed the administrative border with temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea through checkpoint 601 (Chongar) at least three times during 04.06.2016-05.06.2016, 21.07.2016-23.07.2016, 07.08.2016-10.08.2016. The 2015 declaration did not specify the value of an apartment in Partenit (Autonomous Republic of Crimea) owned by my son.
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HIGH
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Official meeting