Tag: Nadiya Savchenko

Russian court finds Ukrainian pilot Savchenko liable for journalist killings

Donetsk, Russian Federation (AFP)—A court in southern Russia on Monday found Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko guilty of murder over the killing of two Russian journalists in war-torn east Ukraine, at a trial condemned by Kiev and the West as a political sham. Savchenko “committed the premeditated murder as part of a group of people from the motives of hatred and enmity,” a judge in the town of Donetsk was quoted as saying by Russian news […]