Two new illegal judges were appointed in the occupying Kherson courts.
Their candidacies were approved by the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, by his decree.
Certificates were received by Mykola Silakov, appointed as a judge of the so-called Kherson Regional Court, and Oleksandr Panov, who was appointed as a judge of “Velykolepetykh Interdistrict Court”.
Silakov was appointed in 2004 as a judge of the Navlinsky District Court of Bryansk Oblast, and in 2010 he became a judge of the Bryansk Regional Court. At the end of 2020 Silakov retired. In 2023 he sought the position of head of the Sovetsky District Court of Bryansk.
Oleksandr Panov was born in 1979. In 2014 he was appointed as a judge of the so-called District Administrative Court of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. In 2016 Panov served as a justice of the peace for judicial precinct No. 70 of the Saky judicial district.
Earlier in occupied Kherson region the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, appointed a new federal judge to the illegally created Kakhovka District Court.