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Deputy Chief of Ukraine's National Police Viacheslav Abroskin has refuted reports claiming that the crime rate in Ukraine is now the level of the 1990s when crime was on the rise after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Abroskin cited statistics of murders committed in the last 20 years. According to the stats, 1,551 murders were recorded in Ukraine in 2017 against 4,529 murders in 1997.
"In 2017, culprits were identified in 1,387 out of 1,551 murder cases, while 466 cases were solved that had been dragging over the years," he wrote on Facebook.
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