The Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv has upheld the nightly house arrest of NABU detective Viktor Gusarov, suspected of treason and passing secret information to the Russian special services.
The new term of the preventive measure will last until February 21, 2026, but Gusarov has been granted the right to move within the Kyiv region and visit “points of inviolability” during air raids or for medical assistance, his lawyer Olena Storozhuk reported. The preliminary preventive measure was in effect until January 21, 2026.
According to the investigation, Gusarov is suspected of transferring data from the closed database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the ARMOR to Dmitry Ivantsov in the period 2012–2015. Ivantsov previously worked in the State Security Service and was a bodyguard for fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych. The investigation claims that Gusarov knew about Ivantsov’s stay in the temporarily occupied Crimea in 2014, but continued to transfer secret information to him.
The detective himself admits to the fact of transferring data, but denies that he knew about Ivantsov’s whereabouts. Gusarov was detained on July 22, 2025, and on October 16, the court extended his detention. On December 5, the Shevchenkivskyi District Court rejected a petition to release him from the pre-trial detention center, but on December 10, the preventive measure was changed to 24-hour house arrest. On January 16, 2026, the Kyiv Court of Appeals eased the regime to night house arrest from 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m.
