Industrialny District Court of Dnipropetrovsk will start a preliminary hearing of the criminal case on terror acts that hit the city in April on November 8, an informed source told an Interfax-Ukraine reporter.

The press service of the Prosecutor's Office of Dnipropetrovsk region has not confirmed this information.

The source also said that a panel of judges would consider the case. The panel will be chaired by Judge Viktoria Ihnatenko. Judge Viktor Moroz may also be a member of the panel.

As reported, on November 30, 2011 the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Justice formed a working group to check the activities of Dnipropetrovsk-based Industrialny District Court, about which many people have complained.

On April 27, 2012, four explosions occurred in a one-hour span in Dnipropetrovsk, injuring 31 people, including 10 teenagers, with 26 people being hospitalized. All the explosive devices were planted in concrete trash containers. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) investigated into a criminal case opened by the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine (PGO) under Part 2 of Article 258 (terror act) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

On May 31, 2012, senior officials in the Interior Ministry of Ukraine and the PGO stated that two suspects had been arrested for allegedly demanding $4.5 million, otherwise they threatened to continue the explosions. It emerged on June 1, 2012 that four people were arrested. All of them have been remanded in custody by the court while the investigation was ongoing.

It was found later that one of them, Viktor Sukachov, is a senior political science professor at the National University of Dnipropetrovsk, and the second one, Vitaliy Fedoriak, is an assistant professor of political science.

On June 11, 2012, SBU Chief Ihor Kalinin said that charges were brought against the suspects.

As reported, the SBU also suspects the detainees of being behind three more terror acts in Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, and Dnipropetrovsk in 2011.

In particular, on October 13, 2011 a blast went off near a kiosk in Kharkiv. On October 21, 2011 a blast hit a supermarket in Zaporizhia. Several weeks after that, on November 16, 2011, a concrete waste bin went off on Karl Marks Avenue, as a result of which a local businessman was killed.

On October 24, 2012 Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Voitsyshen said that the investigation in to the criminal cases on the terror acts in Dnipropetrovsk was finished and the case was sent to the High Specialized Court of Ukraine to select a court that will hear the case.

On October 25, 2012 it was reported that the case would be considered by Dnipropetrovsk-based Industrialny District Court.