A Russian court on Tuesday found captured Ukrainian fighter pilot Nadiya Savchenko guilty of complicity to murder two Russian state TV journalists in eastern Ukraine and sentenced her to 22 years in prison.
The court’s decision threatens to further escalate already high tensions between Kiev and Moscow. However, it could possibly pave the way for a prisoner exchange.
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The two men Savchenko, an Iraq war veteran, was convicted of helping to kill were Anton Voloshin and Igor Kornelyuk. They died in an artillery strike at the height of …read more
Source: Mashable
