Yevgen Sotnikov

Yevgen Sotnikov (Євген Сотников; 20 November 1980 – 6 August 2021) was a Ukrainian judoka.

Sotnikov competed at the 2008 Olympic Games, where he was knocked out after one match.

Sotnikov was sentenced to 15 years for murder in 2009 for shooting an 18-year-old in the head for refusing to drink alcohol with him.

Sotnikov was killed on 6 August 2021, alongside two other prisoners, while serving his jail term. He was aged 40. According to Trilateral Contact Group member Haide Rizayeva Sotnikov was killed in a penal colony of the self-proclaimed Ukrainian breakaway state Donetsk People's Republic.