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Ukrainian pilot sentenced to 22 years in Russian prison | |
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DONETSK, Russia — A Russian court has sentenced a Ukrainian pilot to 22 years in prison after convicting her for complicity to murder in the 2014 deaths of two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine. | |
The judge said on Tuesday Nadezhda Savchenko will also have to pay a fine for crossing into Russia illegally. | |
Savchenko was serving in a Ukrainian volunteer battalion against Russia-backed rebels when she was captured by separatist rebels in July 2014, and later surfaced in Russia. | |
The judge earlier called a break when Savchenko, who has mocked and denounced the proceedings, burst into song upon hearing the guilty verdict. | |
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