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Russian court finds Ukrainian pilot Savchenko guilty

Published: 22 Mar 2016 - 04:18 pm | Last Updated: 02 Nov 2021 - 08:17 am
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A journalist watches a monitor showing a live broadcast from Donetsk City Court room during a sentence hearing of former Ukrainian military pilot Nadezhda Savchenko in Donetsk, Rostov Region, Russia, 22 March 2016.  EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV

MOSCOW: A Russian court ruled on Tuesday that Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko was guilty of complicity in killing two Russian journalists and said that she will be given a custodial sentence.

The judge, Leonid Stepanenko, however could not finish reading out the sentence because Savchenko, who denied wrongdoing, starting signing a Ukrainian song, interrupting him.

Reuters