CASE OF LUPASHKU v. UKRAINE

FIFTH SECTION CASE OF LUPASHKU v. UKRAINE (Application no. 57149/14) JUDGMENT STRASBOURG 24 April 2025 This judgment is final but it may be subject to editorial revision. LUPASHKU v. UKRAINE JUDGMENT In the case of Lupashku v. Ukraine, The European Court of Human Rights (Fifth Section), sitting as a Committee composed of: Andreas Zünd, President, Kateřina Šimáčková, Mykola Gnatovskyy, judges, and Martina Keller, Deputy Section Registrar, Having regard to: the application (no. 57149/14) against Ukraine lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“the Convention”) on 11 August 2014 by a Ukrainian national, Ms Irina Leonidovna Lupashku (“the applicant”), who was born in 1956, and lives in the town of Berezivka in the Odesa Region, and was represented by Ms D. Ostapenko, a lawyer practising in Odesa; the decision to give notice of the application to the Ukrainian Government (“the Government”), represented by their Agent, Ms M. Sokorenko; the parties’ observations; Having deliberated in private on 20 March 2025, Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on that date: SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CASE 1. The case concerns the applicant’s deprivation of her property – a flat which she had privatised and in which she had been living for several years – in favour of another person. 2. The applicant had been working for a local agricultural enterprise which owned a residential...