The European Union is expecting the inquiry into the death of lawyer Yuriy Hrabovsky in Ukraine to bring results, an EU spokesperson told Interfax in Brussels on Tuesday.

"The EU follows the case related to the death of lawyer Yuriy Hrabovsky. The investigation is ongoing. We trust the Ukrainian authorities to carry it out in accordance with high international standards," he said.

Hrabovsky was representing the interests of Russian citizen Alexander Alexandrov, described by Kyiv as a special operations officer from the Main Intelligence Department (GRU), in a Ukrainian court. Alexandrov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev were captured by the Ukrainian army near the town of Schastia in the Luhansk region. The Russian Defense Ministry said that neither Alexandrov nor Yerofeyev were serving in the Russian army at the time they were staying in eastern Ukraine.

Hrabovsky disappeared in early March. The Ukrainian Military Prosecutor's Office said last week that the lawyer was murdered.