MOSCOW: Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko will serve her 22-year jail term over the killing of two Russian journalists, the Kremlin said Saturday despite Kiev’s pushing for a prisoner exchange.
“With Savchenko, the situation is as simple and understandable as possible. Savchenko is a convict… She will serve her sentence,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in excerpts from a televised interview published on TVTs channel’s website.
A court in southern Russia on Tuesday found Savchenko guilty of involvement in the fatal 2014 shelling of the Russian state television reporters in east Ukraine and sentenced her to 22 years in prison.
Her case has …read more
Source: The Manila Times
