Judge injured in Ternopil Oblast car accident dies in hospital.

Lidiia Kviatkovska, a judge who was wounded in a fatal car accident in Ternopil Oblast on Oct.

29, died in the hospital due to her injuries, local judicial administration authorities announced on Nov.

6. Kviatkovska, a judge of the Chortkiv district court, had worked in Ukraine's judiciary for 30 years, Ternopil Oblast's Territorial Administration of the State Judicial Administration said. Kviatkovska was in the car with her son, lawyer Dmytro Kviatkovskyi, when he drove into another lane and collided with an oncoming vehicle, Ukrainska Pravda reported, citing a police spokesperson.

The other vehicle's driver died on the spot, and five people were hospitalized with fractures and other injuries, including Kviatkovska's son and a four-year-old girl. The lives of those injured are not in danger, Serhii Kretsa, the police spokesperson in Ternopil Oblast, told Ukrainska Pravda.

Ukrainian soldier killed in military checkpoint crash near Kyiv A Ukrainian soldier was killed after a car crashed into a military roadblock outside Kyiv overnight on Oct.

22, Ukraine's National Police reported.

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Martin Fornusek is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. He has previously worked as a news content editor at the media company Newsmatics and is a contributor to Euromaidan Press. He also volunteers as an editor and translator at the Czech-language version of Ukrainer.

Martin studied at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia, holding a bachelor's degree in security studies and history and a master's degree in conflict and democracy studies.