(DONETSK, Russia)— A Russian court on Tuesday found a Ukrainian pilot guilty of complicity to murder in the deaths of two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine, opening a path to a potential prisoner swap.
Nadezhda Savchenko, 34, was serving in a Ukrainian volunteer battalion against Russia-backed rebels when she was captured by separatist rebels in July 2014. She later surfaced in Russia.
Prosecutors said Savchenko called in coordinates for the shelling that killed two journalists and several civilians near the Russian border in July 2014. She denied being in the area at the time and insisted that she had been captured by …read more
Source: Time
